1. Aim: How did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade begin in the Americas?
Do Now: Copy the Vocabulary Terms in your notebook Trans-Atlantic Slave trade: the enslavement and transportation, primarily of African people, to the colonies of the New World Triangular Trade: Commerce linking Africa, the New World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe Middle Passage: The voyage from Africa to the United States that slave traders made in the 1600s to 1800s

2. Map Activity Obtain Geography Skills Worksheet 20
Examine the questions first
Analyze the Map
Answer the questions that follow

4. What three continents were involved in the triangular trade?
What goods were shipped from Boston to Britain? Britain to Boston?
For each of the following places, write the letters of the goods it produced. Products may have more than one source.
3. The West Indies____
4. English Colonies in North America ____
5. The Madeira Islands (off the Coast of Africa) ____
6. Great Britain ____

5. Slavery within Africa prior to European Contact
African slavery arose long before Europeans came to the region, probably as early as 1550 BC in Northern Africa.
Several nations such as the Ashanti of Ghana and the Yoruba of Nigeria were involved in slave-trading.
Nations would wage war on other African states to capture people for export as slaves.

6. The Evolution of Slavery in the Colonies
English colonist gradually turned to the use of African slaves to meet their labor needs.
In the early days of slavery the English forced Native Americans to work for them. Native Americans avoided learning English labor techniques and could easily escape because they knew the land.
African Slaves worked their entire lives and therefore brought a higher return of an investment.
,000 Black Slaves, ,000 Black slaves were brought to America.

7. What was this ship used for?
Based on the image, why was this ship built this way?

8. Triangular Slave Trade

9. Primary Source Examination
Obtain a copy of the Primary sources
Divide the class into groups of 3
Underline important words in the document questions
Each group member will be responsible for 1 document
Share your findings with your group

10. Primary Source Questions
Doc 1
1.) Why did the slaves have to lie only on their sides?  
2.) Why were European slavers packing the slaves so tightly together?
Doc 2
1.) What would happen to slaves who refused to eat?
2.)Why do you think they tortured slaves who did not want to eat?
Doc 3
1.) Why do you think some slaves wanted to jump overboard?
2.) What did the sailors do to the slave who they rescued from drowning? Why do you think they did that to him?

11. Slavery in the South
An extremely difficult life of bondage in North America.
Most slaves worked in the fields.
10 to 20 percent worked in the house of their owners and cooked, cleaned, and raised their ,masters’ children

13. In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly to the
(1) middle colonies’ role as the chief importers of agricultural products
(2) rapid industrialization of the southern
colonies
(3) decline of the New England economy
(4) increased importation of enslaved Africans to the Western Hemisphere

14. The large numbers and high volume of
Africans in the slave trade was necessary
Because
(A) most Africans escaped from slavery
before arriving in the Americas.
(B) Muslim fleets patrolled the Atlantic coast
of Africa and freed the slaves.
(C) the mortality of slaves was high and their
birth rate was low.
(D) African slaves were also needed on estates
in Europe after the Black Death.

15. Homework Life Aboard the Slave Ship
Students will write a first person Narrative from the point of view of a slave being brought to the New World or a member of the crew aboard a slave ship.
Students must use all vocabulary from the day’s lesson in their written work.