The atlantic slave trade

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The atlantic slave trade

• Chapter 20, Section 3 (Page 495-499)

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start of slavery in the americas

• Why?
• Growing labor needs
• Sugar Plantations Tobacco farms required many
  workers to be profitable
• When?
• 1500s Europeans began using Africans as slaves
  in the Americas

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why enslave africans?

• Many Native Americans died from war and disease
• Advantages
• Immunity to European diseases
• Had experience farming
• Strangers to America meant they didnt know the
  land or people there less likely to escape

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result?

• Atlantic Slave Trade the buying and selling of
  Africans to work in the Americas
• From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans
  were transported to the Americas
• doesnt included all those that died on the
  journey (

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slave labor

• For what were Africans used as slaves?
• Mines Copper, Gold, Silver
• Plantations Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice

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Atlantic slave trade
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Africas role in the slave trade

• Some African rulers and merchants willingly
  participated
• Captured Africans from the inland and brought to
  the coast
• Why?
• Profitable traded to Europeans for goods (ex/
  gold, guns)
• Others were against it-depopulating, destroying
  country, morally wrong

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Quote

• And we cannot reckon how great the damage is,
  since...merchants are taking every day our
  natives, sons of the land and the sons of our
  noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because
  the thieves and men of bad conscience grab
  them...they grab them and get them to be sold
  and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our
  country is being completely depopulated, and Your
  Highness should not agree with this nor accept
  it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there
  should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for
  them. -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King
  of Portugal

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triangular trade

• Transatlantic trading network, where slaves
  goods were carried between Africa, England,
  Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas

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phases of trading system

• 1 Goods brought to Africa
• 2 Middle Passage
• Voyage that brought captured
  Africans to the Americas
• Awful conditions
• 3 Goods brought back to Europe

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slave ship
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arrival in america

• Slave auctions markets-sold off
• Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves
• Abuse, Mistreatment
• Lifelong

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consequences

• In Africa
• lost generations
• tore apart families, societies
• guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout
  Africa

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consequences

• America
• contributed to economic cultural developments
• diverse population
• slaverys legacy
• on the African-American population
• U.S.s history