1. Primary Source
Documents, images, or objects created during or immediately following the event they describe, by people who had firsthand knowledge of the event
Exs.: Letters, diaries, photos, paintings, newspaper articles

2. Secondary Source
Documents, images, or objects created by people who were not present at the event they describe
Exs.: History books, textbooks, biographies

3. Trade imports- goods brought into a country
exports-goods sent to markets outside the country

4. Triangular Trade
Colonial merchants developed many trade routes. One route was known as the triangular trade.
Colonial merchants sometimes defied the Navigation Acts by buying goods from the Dutch, French, and Spanish West Indies.

5. Triangular Trade

6. Rice, Indigo, Tobacco
Guns, Cloth
Slaves

7. slave codes—laws that set out rules for slaves’ behavior; treated enslaved Africans as property and denied slaves their basic rights
racism—the belief that one race is superior to another

8. Slave Trade
As demand grew European slave traders set up posts along African coast.
They offered guns and other foods to African rulers who brought them slaves.

9. Slave Trade
Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, English, and French all sent ships with slaves to America.
called Middle Passage- slave ships travelling west across Atlantic from Africa to the colonies
slaves were crammed into small spaces below deck

14. Imagine that you were a slave
coming from Africa to the colonies
in America.
What do you think the trip across the Atlantic would have been like?
What would go through your mind when you arrived?
Write a story about the journey from the point of view of a slave.

15. Equiano