1. Triangular Trade System
of exchange between
the Old World (Europe)
and
the New World (the Americas)

2. Triangular Trade System
How did the Triangular Trade affect Europe, Africa and the Americas?

3. Triangular Trade System
included
MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
RAW MATERIALS
SLAVES
exchanged between the New and Old Worlds after Columbus’ arrival in the Americas

4. The Triangular Trade System
began with the Spanish and Portuguese transporting
African Slaves
To the New World as a labor force beginning in 1532.

5. Triangular Trade System
HERE’S HOW IT WORKED…

6. The History Behind The Slave Trade
BEGINS WITH
QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN…
granting New World Spanish colonists the “right” to demand labor of Native Americans …

7. The History Behind The Slave Trade
An unjust right called…
ENCOMIENDA

8. The History Behind The Slave Trade
ENCOMIENDA was nothing more than permission to enslave the natives.
The Spanish and Portuguese tried using New World native populations as slaves but, unfortunately …

9. The History Behind The Slave Trade
they kept dying in the millions as a result of cruel treatment, starvation, and fatal exposure to new diseases.

10. The History Behind The Slave Trade
Bartolomé de las Casas
…and other Spanish Catholic missionaries of the Dominican order were appalled by the injustices they saw committed by the slave owners against the Indians…

11. The History Behind The Slave Trade
So…
De Las Casas and the Dominicans became advocates for better treatment of the natives and for an end to ENCOMIENDA

12. The History Behind The Slave Trade
Unfortunately,
as an advocate for native populations,
Bartolomé de las Casas
suggested that native slave labor could be replaced by
African slave labor

13. The History Behind The Slave Trade
In other words…
replacing one set of slaves for another
But where were the Africans’ advocates? ?

14. The History Behind The Slave Trade
The Spanish and Portuguese began importing Africans into the New World as a labor source in 1532.

15. The History Behind The Slave Trade
Africans were sturdier as they had already been exposed to the Old World diseases and, in many cases, had developed immunities to these diseases.

16. The Spanish used African slave labor in their gold and silver mines in South American and on their sugar plantations in the Caribbean islands.

17. The Portuguese used the African slaves on their sugar plantations in Brazil.

18. The History Behind The Slave Trade
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The History Behind The Slave Trade
As the English began increasing their power in the New World relative to other European powers they, too, became heavily involved in the African slave trade.
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19. The History Behind The Slave Trade
It was the English who eventually evolved the trade concept called the…
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Triangular Trade System

20. Triangular Trade System
Generally, crops and raw materials collected or mined in the New World were shipped to Europe and used to create manufactured products
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21. Triangular Trade System
The manufactured goods were then sent to Africa and traded or sold in exchange for African slaves.
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22. Triangular Trade System
The slaves were then transported to the Americas and bought by plantation owners with money earned from the sale of raw materials to Europeans .
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23. Triangular Trade System
This triangular trade evolved to flow in any direction in which a profit could be made
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24. Triangular Trade System
The leg of the trade triangle that involved the transport of slaves from Africa was called the…
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MIDDLE PASSAGE

25. Triangular Trade System
The
MIDDLE PASSAGE
proved to be a brutal and deadly journey for millions of slaves
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26. Triangular Trade System
The leg of the trade triangle that involved the transport of slaves from Africa was called the…
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MIDDLE PASSAGE

27. The African Slave Trade
Many Europeans did not think that there was anything wrong in enslaving Africans.
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28. The African Slave Trade
After all, ancient Greeks, Romans, and Gauls had kept slaves.
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29. The African Slave Trade
Even Africans enslaved other Africans.
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30. The African Slave Trade
Europeans thought of themselves as superior to everyone else in the world.
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31. The African Slave Trade
African language and customs were so different from European ways…
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Africans must, therefore, be inferior to Europeans and no more than animals.

32. The African Slave Trade
This sense of superiority is called…
ETHNOCENTRISM
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Ethnocentrism made slave trade possible.

33. The African Slave Trade
Ethnocentrism
Created a legacy of cultural inequality that extended the practice slavery for many years.
Promoted cultural inequality in areas even after slavery was abolished.
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34. Summary: THE TRIANGULAR TRADE.
Triangular trade = THREE-WAY trade:
RAW MATERIALS shipped from Americas to Europe
MANUFACTURED GOODS shipped from Europe to Africa.
SLAVES shipped from Africa to Americas

35. Summary: THE TRIANGULAR TRADE.