1. Warm Up Why slavery of Africans? –Why not Natives? –Why not White Indentured Servants?

2. African Slave Trade

3. The Spanish and Portuguese – African sugar plantations. French, British and Dutch follow this example.

4. Enslaved Africans vital for production of sugar, tobacco, cotton, and rice plantations. Brazil and the Caribbean = Sugar, indigo, rice, tobacco and coffee.

5. Capturing of slaves Slave Hunters = European merchants + Stronger African tribes subdue weaker tribes and sell them into slavery.

7. Barracoons = Little jails for gathering slaves Factories = Permanent jails until slave ship arrives Fill orders of slave merchants

8. Factory of Ghana

9. Merchants pay $20.00 / sell for up to $125.00 – physical appearance important for price

10. Loose Pack = 400 slaves Tight Pack = 600-700 “Tight Pack v. Loose Pack

11. Africa to Americas The Middle Passage 50-90 day trip

12. During Middle Passage Vomit, feces, urine and blood Air not breathable Heat unbearable. 20% of cargo usually died

13. Life Small Meals Some drinking water Danced – Jump around exercise

14. Diseases on Ships Smallpox and Yellow fever The diseased thrown overboard Dead thrown overboard

15. Shark Migratory Pattern Change –Atlantic Slave Trade –Food for sharks –Followed ships

17. The iron muzzle Whipped and beaten Escape by jumping overboard Slave Revolts

19. 3,700 mile voyage Fed Better before auction Hot tar to wide scars Oil to hide imperfections Best Market Value