1. The atlantic slave trade
Chapter 20, Section 3 (Page )

2. start of slavery in the americas
Why?
Growing labor needs
Sugar Plantations & Tobacco farms required many workers to be profitable
When?
1500s: Europeans began using Africans as slaves in the Americas

3. why enslave africans? Many Native Americans died from war and disease
“Advantages”:
Immunity to European diseases
Had experience farming
Strangers to America meant they didn’t know the land or people there = less likely to escape

4. result?
Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans to work in the Americas
From 1500 to 1870, about 9.5 million Africans were transported to the Americas
doesn’t included all those that died on the journey :(

5. slave labor For what were Africans used as slaves?
Mines: Copper, Gold, Silver
Plantations: Sugar, Cotton, Coffee, Rice

6. Atlantic slave trade

7. Africa’s role in the slave trade
Some African rulers and merchants willingly participated
Captured Africans from the inland and brought to the coast
Why?
Profitable: traded to Europeans for goods (ex/ gold, guns)
Others were against it-depopulating, destroying country, morally wrong

8. Quote
“And we cannot reckon how great the damage is, since...merchants are taking every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and vassals and our relatives, because the thieves and men of bad conscience grab them...they grab them and get them to be sold; and so great, Sir, is the corruption...that our country is being completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it...it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should not be any trade of slaves nor outlet for them.” -King Alfonso of Congo, Africa to the King of Portugal

9. triangular trade
Transatlantic trading network, where slaves & goods were carried between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies, and the Americas

10. phases of trading system
1: Goods brought to Africa
2: Middle Passage
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas
Awful conditions
3: Goods brought back to Europe

11. slave ship

12. arrival in america Slave auctions & markets-sold off
Field, Mining, Domestic Slaves
Abuse, Mistreatment
Lifelong

13. consequences In Africa: lost generations
tore apart families, societies
guns- helped spread war/conflict throughout Africa

14. consequences America contributed to economic & cultural developments
diverse population
slavery’s legacy
on the African-American population
U.S.’s history