1. 10/17/17- Tuesday
Standards: MWH-1.3, MWH-2.6, MWH-4.7 Objective: I can describe the Atlantic slave trade and the life of enslaved Africans in the colonies. BR: Make a list of all of the facts that you know about slavery.

2. • Spread of Islam produces more slavery in Africa
The Causes of African Slavery
Slavery in Africa
• Slavery has existed in Africa for centuries, but been a minor practice
• Spread of Islam produces more slavery in Africa
• In African, Muslim lands, slaves have some rights
The Demand for Africans started the Atlantic slave trade—forced movement of many Africans to Americas. Europeans saw advantages in using Africans:
1. Africans had been exposed to diseases and more immune
2. Africans had experience in farming
3. Africans were less likely to escape because they didn’t know the land in America
4. Africans had a skin color that was easy to spot if they did try to flee
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3. The Causes of African Slavery
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4. Ask your partner…
What would make Europeans think that Africans would sell their own as slaves?
Why would Europeans go after Africans as slaves?

5. Spain and Portugal Lead the Way
continued The Causes of African Slavery
Spain and Portugal Lead the Way
• By 1650, about 300,000 enslaved Africans in Spanish colonies
• Portugal brings many more slaves (40%) to sugar plantations in Brazil
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6. continued The Causes of African Slavery
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9. England Dominates the Slave Trade
• From 1690 to 1807, England dominates slave trade
• About 400,000 enslaved Africans brought to North American colonies
African Cooperation and Resistance
• Many African rulers capture people to be sold into slavery
• Later, some rulers protest the trade
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12. • Triangular trade—trade network linking Europe, Africa, Americas
A Forced Journey
The Triangular Trade
• Triangular trade—trade network linking Europe, Africa, Americas
• One trade route:
- manufactured goods move from Europe to Africa
- people move from Africa to Americas
- sugar, coffee, tobacco move from Americas to Europe
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13. A Forced Journey
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15. Ask your partner…
Why were Portugal and Spain the early leaders in the slave trade?
Why wouldn’t the Europeans go to other places to enslave other people such as people from the Middle East or India or Indonesia?

16. The Middle Passage
• Voyage of enslaved Africans to Americas known as the middle passage
• As many as 20 percent of Africans die on these journeys

19. • In Americas, captured Africans sold at auction to highest bidder
Slavery in the Americas
A Harsh Life
• In Americas, captured Africans sold at auction to highest bidder
• Life is difficult: long work hours; poor food, housing, clothing
Resistance and Rebellion
• Africans maintain musical, cultural traditions
• Some resist by breaking tools or working slowly
• Some run away or take part in revolts
Survived the Middle Passage, became educated, and earned his freedom by shipping more Africans as slaves to the Americas for the white man.
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20. Slavery in the Americas
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22. Ask your partner…
In what ways did the conditions of the ships in the middle passage work against the interests of the European merchants?
In what ways were enslaved Africans treated as property?

23. Results in Africa and the Americas
Consequences of the Slave Trade
Results in Africa and the Americas
• African societies suffer from loss of so many people
• African families disrupted
• In Americas, labor of enslaved people helps build new
societies
• Enslaved Africans affect culture in Americas
• Population in Americas changes
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24. Consequences of the Slave Trade
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25. Exit Ticket:
Complete page 570, #1 & 3-8, turn in before you leave