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

2. 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
: 300,000 African were transported to the Americas 2

3. Slavery Spreads Throughout the Americas
As other European nations established colonies in the Americas, the demand for cheap labor grew
: 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

4. 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