Triangle Trade Network Atlantic Slave Trade

 The massive enterprise of buying and selling Africans for work in the Americas  Between almost 300,000 Africans were transported to the Americas

Olaudah Equiano  The stench of the hold while we were on the coast was so intolerably loathsome, that it was dangerous to remain there for any time, and some of us had been permitted to stay on the deck for the fresh air; but now that the whole ship’s cargo were confined together, it became absolutely pestilential. The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced copious perspirations, so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died, thus falling victims to the improvident avarice, as I may call it, of their purchasers.

Olaudah Equiano  One day, when we had a smooth sea, and a moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen, who were chained together (I was near them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made through the nettings, and jumped into the sea: immediately another quite dejected fellow, who, on account of his illness, was suffered to be out of irons, also followed their example; and I believe many more would soon have done the same, if they had not been prevented by the ship’s crew, who were instantly alarmed.

Triangular Trade  Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa to buy Africans  The Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean and sold in the West Indies  Merchants then bought sugar, coffee, and tobacco and sailed back to Europe

The Columbia Exchange Global Trade

Columbian Exchange  Global transfer of food, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas

Columbian Exchange  Ships from American brought back items that Europeans had never seen before –(list at least 3 of these in your notes)

Columbian Exchange  Europeans introduced various livestock animals into the Americas. –(you must list these in your notes)

Commercial Revolution  The expansion of trade and business that transformed European economics during the 16 th and 17 th centuries

Economics Vocabulary  Capitalism- an economic system based on private ownership and investment of wealth for profit  Mercantilism- an economic policy where a nation seeks to increase their wealth and power by (1) obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and (2)by selling more goods than they bought (favorable balance of trade)