1. What were the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade?
Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus?

2. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Cultural Interaction
To meet their growing labor needs, Europeans enslaved millions of Africans in the Americas.
Descendants of enslaved Africans represent a significant part of the American’s population today.
Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

3. The Slave Trade Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans.
Sugar cane & sugar plantations.
First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518.
275,000 enslaved Africans exported to other countries.
Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas.

4. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Atlantic Slave Trade: buying and selling of Africans into slavery. Between 1500 and 1600, nearly 300,000 Africans were transported to the Americas.
Most slaves were sold by Spain. They worked throughout South/North America working on plantations and in mines.
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

5. C. Slave Trade
1. Imported African slaves to work on large plantations

6. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

7. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Triangular Trade
Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa. There, traders exchanged these goods for captured Africans.
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

8. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
The Route
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

9. Triangular Trade Route
Europe
Manufactured goods (beads, cloth, guns)
The Americas
Cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses, rum
Africa
slaves

10. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Middle Passage
This is the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North/South America.
Cruelty characterized this journey. The Africans were packed into ships with beatings.
They suffered horrible diseases and abuse.
Many committed suicide by throwing themselves overboard.
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

11. Triangular Trade RouteB C
“The Middle Passage”
Triangular Trade Route

12. The Horrors of the Middle Passage

13. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
The Voyage
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

14. Slave Ship
“Middle Passage”

15. The Atlantic Slave Trade
Video Clip
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?

16. How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?
Activity
Have students all stand in a small space in the middle of the room. They must be as close together as possible.
How did you feel?
What did you see?
Imagine being like this for 3 months traveling across the Atlantic.
How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa?