1. Atlantic Slave Trade

2. Causes of the Slave Trade
Europeans needed cheap laborers in South and Central America because many of the Native Americans had died due to European diseases

3. Advantages to using Africans
Immunity to European many diseases
Experience in farming
Unfamiliar with the land- could not escape

4. Triangular Trade
Europeans transported manufactured good to Africa- exchanged for slaves
Africans sold in West Indies and South America
Merchants then bought coffee, sugar and tobacco and sailed back to Europe
Middle Passage- route from Africa to the Americas

5. Triangle Trade

6. Middle Passage
Route from Africa to the Americas by boat across the Atlantic Ocean
Fill-up ships…the more slaves, the more money you make
Cramped spaces
Little air circulation and light
Smell, diseases, rats, even death!

7. More Middle Passage
There is no movement. You are chained down and together. Image if you were underneath the top bunk…what if someone above you threw up or went to the bathroom?

8. Consequences of the Slave Trade
African cultures lost
African families torn apart
War and conflict in Africa (due to guns)
African populations in the Americas

10. Affects of Slave Trade POSITIVE *some slaves became educated
*made people rich
*economy grew (Europe and Americas)
*industrialization icreased
*Africa got others goods for the slaves
*Europe got raw materials
*trade increases
NEGATIVE
*Africans lost their culture
*torture on the Middle Passage
*turned tribes against each other
*population in Africa decreased
*broke up families
*slaves had to be “fixed”
*added more conflict in Africa
*women were raped
*slaves seen as animals/property
*abuse on plantations
*strong of Africa were taken (warriors)