2. Joint-Stock Company
a business entity which is owned by shareholders. Each shareholder owns the portion of the company in proportion to his or her ownership of the company's shares. This allows for the unequal ownership of a business with some shareholders owning a larger proportion of a company than others.

3. Mercantilism Mother Country Colonies Wealth measured in Gold/Silver
Export more then import.
Colonies existed to benefit the Mother Country.
Raw materials.
Market for goods.
No competition with other Nations.
Nations make money:
Increase Tax Revenue
Used natural resources to expand
Mother Country
Raw Materials
Finished Goods
Colonies

4. COLUMBIAN EXCHANGE

5. West Indies and slavery
Encomiendas - slave labor from Natives
Mines, Sugar Cane, Cattle Ranching (Brazil)
80% Died (disease, starvation)
Spanish priest (Bartolomé de las Casas) urged use of Africans
Thought resistant to tropical disease
Cheap Skilled laborers
Quickly turned to slavery
By 1500’s slavery dominates
African trade with Europe

6. The beginning of The Journey
Tribal Warfare
The Muslim traders of West Africa who linked the forest region to the savanna had slave porters as well as villages of slaves to supply their caravans. In a number of situations, these forms of servitude were relatively benign and were an extension of lineage and kinship systems. In others, however, they were exploitative economic and social relations that reinforced the hierarchies of various African societies and allowed the nobles, senior lineages, and rulers to exercise their power. Among the forest states of West Africa, such as Benin, and in the Kongo kingdom in central Africa slavery was already an important institution prior to the European arrival, but the Atlantic trade opened up new opportunities for expansion and intensification of slavery in those societies.
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7. The beginning of The Journey
Tribal Warfare
Africans taken from inland villages

8. The beginning of The Journey
Tribal Warfare
Africans taken from inland villages
Marched to coast of Africa

9. TRIANGULAR TRADE

10. First Leg Europeans brought guns, cloth, blankets, etc. to Africa
Triangular Trade
First Leg
Europeans brought guns, cloth,
blankets, etc. to Africa

11. Second Leg Middle passage - slaves taken to Americas
Triangular Trade
Second Leg
Middle passage - slaves taken to Americas

12. Triangular Trade
FLOATING COFFINS

13. Second Leg - Middle passage
Triangular Trade
Second Leg - Middle passage
Hundreds Crammed into Vessel
Death was common: Dysentery, Small Pox, Suicide
Half the “Cargo” would die
FLOATING COFFINS

14. THIRD LEG Carried sugar molasses, cotton, furs, to Europe
Triangular Trade
THIRD LEG
Carried sugar molasses, cotton, furs, to Europe
Some Cartoons aren’t meant to be funny…but, a commentary on the times…
Attitude of the captains…People were considered “Cargo”, nothing more.

15. Growth of Wealth Investors became wealthy Port cities became wealthy
African tribes became wealthy
…Every one but the slaves
Stock Company

16. Loss of young People meant small communities lost forever
Impact On Africa
Loss of young People meant small communities lost forever

17. Powerful African Empires Asante
In the area called the Gold Coast by the Europeans, the empire of Asante rose to prominence in the period of the slave trade. The Asante were members of the Akan people - the major group of modern Ghana. There were at least 20 small states based on the matrilineal clans that were common to all the Akan peoples, but those of the Oyoko clan dominated.
Their cooperation and their access to firearms after 1650 initiated a period of centralization and expansion. By 1700 the Dutch on the coast realized that a new power had emerged and they began to deal directly with it.
With control of the gold-producing zones and a constant supply of prisoners to be sold as slaves for more firearms, Asante maintained its power until the 1820s as the dominant state of the Gold Coast. Although gold continued to be a major item of export, by the end of the 17th century the value of
slaves made up almost two-thirds of Asante's trade.

18. New Colonial Society and Culture Cultural Diffusion creates …
Peninsulares
Born in Spain
Creoles
Spanish blood born in America.
Mestizos
Part native part European
Mulattoes
Part African part European
Native Indians
Africans