1. The Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 20 Section 3
The Atlantic Slave Trade

2. What is the #1 good/resource discovered in the New World?
How does this relate to or influence slavery?

3. Why did the transportation of slaves significantly increase in the 1600s?
Sugar/Tobacco Farms
Need for labor
Native Americans not good slaves
#1 demand was cheap labor

4. Advantages Exposed to European disease Farming experience
Less likely to escape
Easily identifiable

5. The Atlantic Slave Trade
The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
: 300,000 transported to Americas
: 1.3 million
By 1870, 9.5 million had been transported

6. What led to the increase in slaves being transported during the 1600s?
Massive need for cheap labor
Supply and demand

7. Spain & Portugal
By 1650, 300,000 just for Spanish plantations and mines
Portuguese surpassed this
WHY?
Brazil dominated the sugar trade
By 1700, over 40% of all Africans brought to the Americas went to Brazil

8. England 1690-1807: English leading carrier of slaves
Slave population steadily grew in the colonies

9. African Cooperation African rulers sold prisoners
Coastal ports – easy access to slaves
Very profitable

12. Page 568 Question 1 and 2

13. The Triangular Trade transatlantic trading network

14. Europe –
Africa –
Americas –
Caribbean –
Colonies –

15. Where is the Middle Passage?

16. Middle Passage

17. What were the conditions like during the Middle Passage?
Packed into lower quarters
Whippings/beatings
Disease
20% of Africans on every ship died

18. Inspection Auction Block Chain Gang
What was the first thing that happened to a slave when they arrived in the Americas?
Inspection
Auction Block
Chain Gang

20. What do you think are the consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Africa
Americas
Lose fittest people and young people
Slaves contributed to economic/cultural development
Families torn apart
Labor/farming knowledge
Introduced guns to Africa
Increase in African American population