1. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Aim: What were the horrors of the Atlantic slave trade? Do Now: Read the poem. What is the author describing? Homework: Write a letter to the leader of Spain or England and convince them to stop the slave trade.

2. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Cultural Interaction To meet their growing labor needs, Europeans enslaved millions of Africans in the Americas. Descendants of enslaved Africans represent a significant part of the American’s population today.

3. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Slave Trade Atlantic Slave Trade: buying and selling of Africans into slavery. Between 1500 and 1600, nearly 300,000 Africans were transported to the Americas. Most slaves were sold by Spain. They worked throughout South/North America working on plantations and in mines.

4. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? The Route

5. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Triangular Trade Europeans transported manufactured goods to the west coast of Africa. There, traders exchanged these goods for captured Africans.

6. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? The Horrors of the Middle Passage

7. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? The Voyage

8. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Middle Passage This is the voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and later to North/South America. Cruelty characterized this journey. The Africans were packed into ships with beatings. They suffered horrible disease and abuse. Many committed suicide by throwing themselves overboard.

9. Aim: How did the Atlantic slave trade effect Africa? Do Now: What is the legacy of Columbus? Activity Have students all stand in a small space in the middle of the room. They must be as close together as possible. –How did you feel? –What did you see? –Imagine being like this for 3 months traveling across the Atlantic.