Primary Source Documents, images, or objects created during or immediately following the event they describe, by people who had firsthand knowledge of the event Exs.: Letters, diaries, photos, paintings, newspaper articles

Secondary Source Documents, images, or objects created by people who were not present at the event they describe Exs.: History books, textbooks, biographies

Trade imports- goods brought into a country exports-goods sent to markets outside the country

Triangular Trade Colonial merchants developed many trade routes. One route was known as the triangular trade. Colonial merchants sometimes defied the Navigation Acts by buying goods from the Dutch, French, and Spanish West Indies.

Triangular Trade https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYfCRRNxX2o

Rice, Indigo, Tobacco Guns, Cloth Slaves

slave codes—laws that set out rules for slaves’ behavior; treated enslaved Africans as property and denied slaves their basic rights racism—the belief that one race is superior to another

Slave Trade As demand grew European slave traders set up posts along African coast. They offered guns and other foods to African rulers who brought them slaves.

Slave Trade Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French all sent ships with slaves to America. called Middle Passage- slave ships travelling west across Atlantic from Africa to the colonies slaves were crammed into small spaces below deck

Imagine that you were a slave coming from Africa to the colonies in America. What do you think the trip across the Atlantic would have been like? What would go through your mind when you arrived? Write a story about the journey from the point of view of a slave.

Equiano https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REXNr-PUlnk