The Atlantic Slave Trade Chapter 20 Section 3 The Atlantic Slave Trade

What is the #1 good/resource discovered in the New World? How does this relate to or influence slavery?

Why did the transportation of slaves significantly increase in the 1600s? Sugar/Tobacco Farms Need for labor Native Americans not good slaves #1 demand was cheap labor

Advantages Exposed to European disease Farming experience Less likely to escape Easily identifiable

The Atlantic Slave Trade The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas 1500-1600: 300,000 transported to Americas 1600-1700: 1.3 million By 1870, 9.5 million had been transported

What led to the increase in slaves being transported during the 1600s? Massive need for cheap labor Supply and demand

Spain & Portugal By 1650, 300,000 just for Spanish plantations and mines Portuguese surpassed this WHY? Brazil dominated the sugar trade By 1700, over 40% of all Africans brought to the Americas went to Brazil

England 1690-1807: English leading carrier of slaves Slave population steadily grew in the colonies

African Cooperation African rulers sold prisoners Coastal ports – easy access to slaves Very profitable

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The Triangular Trade transatlantic trading network

Europe – Africa – Americas – Caribbean – Colonies –

Where is the Middle Passage?

Middle Passage

What were the conditions like during the Middle Passage? Packed into lower quarters Whippings/beatings Disease 20% of Africans on every ship died

Inspection Auction Block Chain Gang What was the first thing that happened to a slave when they arrived in the Americas? Inspection Auction Block Chain Gang http://www.latinamericanstudies.org/slavery.htm

What do you think are the consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade? Africa Americas Lose fittest people and young people Slaves contributed to economic/cultural development Families torn apart Labor/farming knowledge Introduced guns to Africa Increase in African American population