1. Atlantic Slave Trade

2. Evolution of Slavery Enslavement of humans is an ancient institution
- Sumerians
- Greeks
- Romans
Minor institution in Africa

3. Growth of Islam increases Slavery
Belief non-Muslims could be used as slaves
Slaves held some rights
- op. for social mobility
- serve military
- could escape bondage
- not hereditary
: 4.8 million slaves sold to SW Asia

4. Europeans change Slavery
Europeans need cheap labor to work mines and plantations of new American colonies
Initially used Native Americans
- Many die due to disease
- Many escape and return home.

5. Early European Slavery
Spain brings first slaves to Americas in 1511 to work in copper mines.
Portuguese use slaves extensively in sugar plantations in Brazil
Conditions so bad that women slaves could not bare children: malnutrition and beatings.

6. Atlantic Slave Trade 1500-1600: 300,000 Slaves transported
: 1.5 Million slaves transported
By 1870: 9.5 Million transported.

7. Slavery Spreads to North America
Dutch, French, British demand labor to work on coffee, sugar, and tobacco plantations.
British dominate slave trade
Transport 1.7 million to West Indies
Transport 400,000 to American Colonies

8. Triangle Trade Series of transatlantic routes.
Slaves – Raw Materials – Finished goods.

9. Middle Passage
Long voyage that brought African slaves to North and South America.
Slaves forced into dark holds of a slave ship.

10. Middle Passage, Continued
Slaves barely able to move
Slept and laid in vomit and human waste
Difficult to breath
Beatings
Many deaths
(Body pos on slave ship Aurora, 1784)

11. Origins of Slavery in America – History.com

12. Nat Turner and Slave Rebellion