1. Warm up In your binder, create a K-W-L chart about slavery
K: 3 things you KNOW about slavery
W: 3 things you WANT to know
L: Things you have LEARNED (don’t fill out yet)

2. Latin America
Captains prepared slaves as they got close to destination
Close inspection at market—standard prices for men, women, and children
Kept in corrals at market
Shave, bathe, exercise, dye hair, oiled them to cover blemishes/scars

3. seasoning Africans divided into 3 categories
Creoles--Slaves born in Americas
Old Africans
New Africans
Creoles worth 3X value of unseasoned Africans or old AfricansWhy?

4. seasoning
“Seasoning”: process of modifying the behavior and attitude of slaves and make them effective laborers
Branded
Given European names
Learned European languages
Certain regions developed distinct languages—Gullah and Creole

5. Seasoning Africans formed relationships with shipmates
Formed new “extended families”

6. End of the slave trade
Late 1800’s—British begin abolitionism (end of slavery)
GB abolishes slave trade 1807
Congress outlaws the TRADE in 1808

7. Transculturation
the creative interaction between two cultures, resulting in a new culture
among Europeans, Africans, and indigenous Americans created distinctive Latin American cultures
African cultures and religion were brought over
Santeria (religion)
Capoeira (martial art)-disguised as dance to hide they were learning martial arts