1. The Atlantic Slave Trade
August 22nd

2. Bell Work What was the Middle Passage?
What were conditions like for the Africans during the Middle Passage?

3. Standards
Standard: SS.8.A.2.7 Describe the contributions of key groups (Africans, Native Americans, women, and children) to the society and culture of colonial America.
E.Q: How did slave culture in the America’s develop?
Check for understanding: create a cause and effect chart.

4. African Diaspora
African Diaspora is a scattering of African people around the world
Most Africans were taken to colonies in South America and the Caribbean where they worked on sugar plantations and mines.
About 600,000 slaves were taken to England’s colonies in North America (original thirteen colonies)

5. African Diaspora
Slaves were given few rights and many were treated terribly.
Some were treated kindly but most suffered whippings, brandings, and torture

7. Slave Culture in the Americas
Slaves in the Americas spoke different languages and came from different cultural backgrounds.
However, they did have a lot in common, so they used that to build a new African American culture

8. Slave Culture in the Americas
Families were a vital part of slave culture.
They were used a refuge but families were often broken apart
Religion was a second refuge.
They were typically Christian with a mixture of African religions

9. Slave Culture in the Americas
Religion gave them hope and allowed them to express themselves.
They used spirituals, songs, and folktales to express themselves and raise their spirits
Slaves also expressed themselves through art and dance which were influenced by African traditions

10. Get into groups of four Get into groups of four
Imagine that you are a group of colonists opposed to slave labor (abolitionists)
Your group will write a proposal that suggests alternatives to slave labor, including the development of other industries that would require more specialized labor.

11. Check for Understanding
Create a cause and effect chart
In the cause section, give reasons why the African Americans were enslaved.
Example: need for labor
In the effects section, explain what happened to the people they left behind in Africa, what happened to the American economy, and how African American culture in the U.S. developed.