2. The Atlantic Slave Trade 1450-1850

3. Statistics Total of approx. 12 million Africans were taken from their homeland 2000/year between 1450-1850

4. Why did it begin? 1.The Portuguese explored the African Coast 2. Europeans discover New World 3. Native Americans were an inadequate labor force Began buying slaves Need for a large labor force Plantations and Mines Create Colonies

5. Labor Source Native Americans Dying from Disease Hunters, not farmers Knew the Geography Easy to escape Africans Immunity to Disease Experienced Farmers Unfamiliar land Hard to escape Profits from slave trade

6. Slave Trade Characteristics 1.Spain and Portugal were the leaders 2.By 1600s: 3. Taken primarily from West Africa 4. Role of Africans England, Dutch and French were involved Kings gave permission Merchants sold captives Hunters captured other Africans

7. Step 1 ________ ________ Step 2 ________ ________ Step 3 ________ ________ Step 4 ________ ________ Step 5 ________ ________ Step 6 _________ _________ A slaves Journey from Africa to the New World As you listen to the podcast, record where each step took place and a supporting detail

8. Africans eager for guns/horses, traded POWs to Europeans. There was a premium on Adult Males. Captured slaves were escorted on a 500 mile walk to sea Step 1

9. Captured slaves were placed in prisons, examined by surgeons and stripped of clothing. Invalids were thrown into sea. Branded with company logo. Families were separated Step 2

10. Over 700 slaves were packed into the ship. They were separated by gender, arranged together in mixed language groups Step 3

11. Disease was common in the holds of the ship. Slaves were fed once a day and brought to the surface once a week Step 4

12. Slave rebellions were ruthlessly oppressed. Agitators were thrown overboard. Suicides were common. Step 5

13. . Slaves were sold in the West Indies and then could be sent to Brazil and Mexico where they labored on sugar plantations or in the gold mines. They could also be shipped to the S. British Colonies where they worked on tobacco, rice and cotton plantations Step 6

14. Consequences of Slave Trade 1.Africa lost a generation of people 2.Families were divided 3.Demand for Guns in Africa— 5. Greatly developed the Americas 6. New Culture emerge: More Civil Wars African//European mix-Mulattoes New Songs, dress, different forms of Christianity

15. Questions 1. Why were Africans willing to trade other Africans into slavery? 2. While on a slave ship there were few slave rebellions despite the fact that slaves outnumbered their captors 10 to 1. Why do you think there we so few rebellions? 3. Where in North America would you expect to find large numbers of slaves and why? North or South? 4. Some form of slavery has existed in nearly every empire in history. What makes the Atlantic Slave trade uniquely cruel and barbaric form of labor? 5. Do you think slave hunters/traders hated the people they captured and enslaved? Explain.