1. Colonial American and the Slave Trade

2. Do Now
Think about the worst experience you have ever had. How did you feel during that experience?
Please use full sentences

3. Machines, Hardware, Furniture
Colonial Trade Facts
Mercantilism: an economic system where England controlled what goods were traded to and from the colonies.
Timber, Fur, Tobacco
Machines, Hardware, Furniture

4. Mercantilism Limits……..
Free Enterprise: Economic competition with little government control
Colonists could not buy or sell goods directly to other foreign countries.
Leads to unfavorable balance of trade for colonies.

5. Triangular Trade Named for trade between colonies, England and Africa
Colonies: Export raw materials and rum. Imports slaves and manufactured goods.
England: Exports manufactured goods, guns and iron. Imports raw materials and gold.
Africa: Exports slaves, gold, and ivory. Imports guns and iron.

7. The Middle Passage
Named for the middle part of the Triangular trade which brought slaves to the colonies
Slave trade brought around 10 million Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
Common threats:
Starvation
Dehydration
Diseases

14. REFLECTION
What feelings did you experience during the activity?

15. REFLECTION
Describe the process of enslavement? What did it feel like?

16. REFLECTION
How do you think the White Europeans felt about Africans?

17. REFLECTION
How do you think the Africans felt about the White Europeans?

18. REFLECTION
In what ways do you think this exercise accurately reflected an actual slave passage?

19. REFLECTION
In what ways do you think this exercise did not accurately reflect it?

20. REFLECTION
How do you think slavery affects people’s views on morality (what is right and wrong)?

21. REFLECTION
Why do you think this is important when we start to talk about the American Revolution and the founding of the United States?