1. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Age of Exploration CE
World History
Arvada West Senior High
Thomson

2. The “Columbian Exchange”
Squash
Avocado
Peppers
Sweet Potatoes
Turkey
Pumpkin
Tobacco
Quinine
Cocoa
Pineapple
Cassava
POTATO
Peanut
TOMATO
Vanilla
MAIZE
Syphilis
Trinkets
Liquor
GUNS
Olive
COFFEE BEAN
Banana
Rice
Onion
Turnip
Honeybee
Barley
Grape
Peach
SUGAR CANE
Oats
Citrus Fruits
Pear
Wheat
HORSE
Cattle
Sheep
Pigs
Smallpox
Flu
Typhus
Measles
Malaria
Diptheria
Whooping Cough

3. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Official European Colony!
Explorers
Conquistadores
Official European Colony!
Missionaries
Permanent Settlers

4. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

5. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Early Encounters 1400’s CE
Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans
Muslim, Christian traders, and pilgrims
Portuguese:
Looking for new trade routes to India
Controlled West African cities with violence
Replaced European slaves with Africans

6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Slave Trade 1500’s – 1800’s
Throughout world history there has always been slavery
Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc…
Slavery was never a lucrative & profitable business:
Profitable for European Traders & African chiefs
Slaves were needed to work in the New World
Sugar cane & sugar plantations
First boatload of slaves of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518 CE

7. Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill

8. Slave Ship
“Middle Passage”

9. “Coffin” Position Below Deck

10. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Triangle Trade:

11. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Effects
Numbers
1500’s – 2000 slaves/year sent to the Americas
1780’s – 80,000/year
11 million total
2 million died

12. African Captives Thrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships!

13. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Effects cont…
Youth population declined in West Africa
Entire cities disappeared
African resistance:
King Alfonso I of Kongo believed contact with the Europeans could be beneficial, but the slave trade was evil
His appeal failed

14. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Basic Terms:
Racism – The idea that some races are superior to others.
White Man’s Burden – The idea that the white man must “civilize” the “backward” people of the world.
Slavery – A condition in which one human being is owned by another. Considered as property and deprived of most rights by free persons.
Triangle Trade – Ships sailed the legs of a triangle formed by Europe, Africa, and the Americas.