1. Aim: What role did geography play in the development of the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Do Now: Define the following terms
Word
Definition
Import
Export
Goods
Market

2. What is The Triangular Trade?

3. Definition
Triangular Trade: Trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.

4. THE TRIANGULAR SLAVE TRADE
CHEAP MANUFACTURED GOODS
THE TRIANGULAR SLAVE TRADE
Trinkets – pots, pans, beads, shells, cloth
SLAVES WERE USED ON PLANTATIONS, GROWING SUGAR, TOBACCO, COTTON.
THIRD STAGE – RAW MATERIALS SENT TO EUROPE
Profits from slave sales were used to buy produce from the plantations eg. sugar, tobacco, cotton, which were sold for great profit in Europe.
Cheap trinkets exchanged for slaves
FIRST STAGE – EUROPE TO AFRICA
U.S.A.
TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES , OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED
Mexico
Caribbean Islands
SECOND STAGE - THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
SLAVE TRADERS THEN SOLD THE SLAVES TO PLANTATION OWNERS
Brazil
THE ‘MIDDLE PASSAGE’ – THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC..
THE WORLD AROUND 1750

5. The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Triangle Trade: Trade between three points.
The Americas
Europe
Africa
The Middle Passage: The forced transport of slaves from Africa to the Americas.
Americas
Sugar cultivated and traded to England
Europe
Distilled sugar to make rum.
Africa
Traded rum and firearms for slaves.
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6. Maps of the Triangular Trade

7. The Middle Passage

8. Activity Read about Mercantilism as a class.
Fill in the boxes based on your understanding of the front article.