The Middle Passage
Atlantic Slave Trade 1525-1866: 12.5 million Africans shipped to the New World Approximately 10.7 million survived 388,000 taken to colonies in present-day United States Portuguese, British, French, Spanish, and Dutch were main Atlantic slave traders
Textiles and manufactured goods Triangular Trade Raw goods (sugar, tobacco, and cotton) Textiles and manufactured goods Original map retrieved from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Atlantic_Ocean_location_map.svg Slaves
Central Historical Question How did people experience the Middle Passage?
Document D: Diagram of Slave Ship Image retrieved from http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.28204300