Africa Through the Americas Keenon Robinson

 Content Area: African/African American Studies  Grade Level: 9-12  Summary: The purpose of this power point is to have the students understand what took place as slaves where bought and sold through the middle passage  Learning Objective: Given websites that contain facts about the middle passage students will need to interpret the material within the websites to answer the questions within the power point with 100 percent accuracy  Standard: AAH.4 Identify and explain the Middle Passage as one of the largest forced migrations in human history. (C, H)

Why did the trade begin?  Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable,and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases. Africans, on the other hand, were excellent workers: they often had experience of agriculture and keeping cattle, they were used to a tropical climate, resistant to tropical diseases, and they could be "worked very hard" on plantations or in mines.

Why did the trade begin cont.?  Africans, on the other hand, were excellent workers: they often had experience of agriculture and keeping cattle, they were used to a tropical climate, resistant to tropical diseases, and they could be "worked very hard" on plantations or in mines.

Instructions  Watch this video on the transatlantic slave trade, the website provide on this slide. You will need to take notes from this selected videos to help with questions later in this lesson.

In what year did the United States government band slavery   

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How long was the trip from the Ivory Coast of Africa to the West Indies?  1 month 1 month  1 year 1 year  7weeks 7weeks

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Where was the largest slave port in the world?  Charleston, South Carolina Charleston, South Carolina  Havana, Cuba Havana, Cuba  Sierra Leone Sierra Leone

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Summary  In this lesson you will learn in 8 steps of the transatlantic slave trade from leaving Europe traveling to the west coast of Africa all the way across the ocean to the Caribbean islands  You will also learn the different goods that slaves where traded with and for, alone with and the conditions of the trip before they even made it to the Americas.

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