Aim: Trace the Spread of Slavery and Explain the Triangular Trade

The Causes of African Slavery 1500: European colonists in the Americas who needed cheap labor began using enslaved African on plantations Portuguese traders were interested in trading for gold than for captured Africans Changed with the colonization of the Americas (Natives died by millions) The buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas became known as the Atlantic Slave Trade 1500-1600: 300,000 African were transported to the Americas 2

Slavery Spreads Throughout the Americas As other European nations established colonies in the Americas, the demand for cheap labor grew 1690-1807: England was the leading carrier of enslaved Africans 1830: Roughly 3 million slaves in Americas Many African rulers & merchants played a willing role in the Atlantic Slave Trade African merchants and local rulers captured Africans to be enslaved They then delivered them to Europeans in exchange for gold, guns, and other goods 3

A Forced Journey Africans transported to the Americas were part of a transatlantic trading network called the Triangular Trade The Triangular trade encompassed a network of trade routes crisscrossing the northern and southern colonies, the West Indies, England, Europe, and Africa Europeans transported goods to the west coast of Africa Goods were exchanged for captured Africans Africans moves to West Indies where Merchants bought sugar, coffee and tobacco and took to Europe Merchants carried rum and goods from New England to Africa in exchange for Africans 4