1. Triangle Trade and Trans-Atlantic Slavery 1600’s CE
World History

2. ORID Prompt Setting the Stage Observe I See/Hear… Reflect I Think…
Interpret
I Feel…
Decide
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Setting the Stage
Sugar plantations and tobacco farms needed large supply of workers to turn a profit.
First Native Americans were going to be used but millions of died from disease and warfare.
1500s the slave trade begins with Portuguese , and Spanish with England starting to in the 1600s.
Sea Captain John Hawkins started English involvement in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade.

3. The Triangle Trade 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th century's
In the 18th century, perhaps 6 million Africans were taken to the Americas as slaves, at least a third of them in British ships.
For the British slave traders it was a three-legged journey, called the 'triangular trade':
Taking trade goods, such as guns and brandy, to Africa to exchange for slaves.
Then taking the slaves on the 'Middle Passage' across the Atlantic to sell in the West Indies and North America.
Finally, taking a cargo of rum and sugar back to sell in England.
Conditions on the Middle Passage were terrible, and many slaves died.
Estimated that 15% of slaves died on the journey.
The Triangle Trade 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th century's

4. African Slave Trade Slavery existed in Africa for centuries.
Muslims – with the spread of Islam into Africa in the 17th century
Italians – in 12th century
Slaves traded for raw goods. They were not taken in the middle of the night.
Africa was will developed and had villages, towns and cities.
African countries to big to just take from.
Rulers in Africa would capture and trade African slaves that were from:
Along the African coast moving over time from the north of Africa to as far south as Angola
Indian Ocean Region
Mozambique
Zanzibar
Madagascar

5. The Tragedy and Economics of Slavery
Slaves where humanins beings viewed as an economic commodity (product).
Slaves were sold like cattle and branded like cattle
Slaves were dominated by work and terror.
Slaves worked in many types of positions as skilled labors, servants, and sailors but mostly as agricultural labor.
The Brazil and Caribbean's slaves worked 10 months out of the year in the sugar plantations from dawn to dust.

6. The Hash Labor of Processing Sugar
Slaves worked 10 months out of the year doing this work but continued to labor outside of the sugar processing.
Slaves carried 80 pound baskets of manure on top of their heads to fertilize the sugar cane fields.
Slaves worked 48 hours straight once sugar canes were harvested because the sap would spoil with a day.
Life expectance in the sugar cane plantations was 23 years of age
In America slaves had it better because slave owner figured out that if they had healthy slave they would breed and have more slave to sell and make more money.
What made the slave trade worse in America was that slave were considered property
Chattel slavery is what most people have in mind when they think of the kind of slavery that existed in the United States before the Civil War, and that existed legally throughout many parts of the world as far back as recorded history. Slaves were actual property who could be bought, sold, traded or inherited.