1. Aim: What were the causes and effects of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Do Now: What do you know about slavery? What would you like to know?

2. A) Slavery in ancient times was not based on racism
A) Slavery in ancient times was not based on racism. Instead, you became a slave if you owed a debt, were captured in war, or were born into it. B) Europeans used African slaves when millions of Native Americans died from European diseases. C) Europeans relied on African slave traders to seize captives and bring them to coastal trading forts. The slaves were exchanged for manufactured European goods. Africans enslaved Africans of rival tribes.

4. Slave Fortress, Ghana, West Africa

5. Slave Holding Chamber, Zanzibar, East Africa

6. Ashanti
The Ashanti were a West African tribe who traded directly with the British. In exchange for guns and other European goods, the Ashanti sold gold and slaves (often captured in war). As a result, the Ashanti became wealthy.

7. Indian Ocean Slave Trade 1500 – 1900 controlled by Muslim Arabs
D) Slaves were considered to be property. To justify the harsh treatment of slaves, Europeans adopted the belief that Africans were biologically inferior (racism). E) Muslim Arabs controlled the slave trade in East Africa and the Indian Ocean.
Indian Ocean Slave Trade 1500 – 1900 controlled by Muslim Arabs

8. Middle Passage: Enslaved persons
Triangular trade was a pattern of colonial trade between ports in Africa, the American colonies, and Europe. It was based on mercantilism; the mother country benefited the most.
Middle Passage: Enslaved persons

9. F) The Middle Passage was the 3 leg voyage of a European slave ship during the Age of Exploration. Thousands of slaves died during the Middle Passage from disease, starvation, or even murder.
G) A slave ship had slaves from different tribes (and languages) to reduce the chance of a revolt.

10. G) Olaudah Equiano was sold into slavery at age 11, later acquired his freedom, learned to write, and, in 1789, wrote his autobiography.
“… the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us. This produced copious perspirations [sweat], so that the air soon became unfit for respiration, from a variety of loathsome smells, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, of which many died... This was again aggravated by the gaffing of the chains… and the filth of the necessary tubs, into which the children often fell, and were almost suffocated. The shrieks of the women, and the groans of the dying, rendered the whole a scene of horror almost inconceivable...” Equiano, 1789

11. Slave Nurse with Her Master’s Child

12. Jamaica Sugar Cane Planation

13. Key Vocabulary Atlantic Slave Trade Mercantilism Middle Passage
Olaudah Equiano
Racism
Triangular Trade