1. Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763
Tuesday September 29
Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

2. Classwork for Tuesday September 29
Quick five question T/F quiz on homework reading (Homework grade/ 10%)
PPT Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction through The Middle Passage.
3. History beyond the textbook. Go to:
(The Middle Passage, by Steve Mintz)
Read, Research, and Write a well-constructed paragraph on what you found most interesting about this article, and why.
(Classwork grade/20%)

3. Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction
Olaudah Equiano: 1789-The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Condemned the idea that Africans were inferior to Europeans, which made it acceptable to enslave them. Although concentrated in the Chesapeake and areas further south, slavery existed in every colony of British North America. Unlike Equiano, a vast majority of slaves never acquired their freedom.

4. The title page of Olaudah Equiano’s account of his life.
The best-known narrative by an eighteenth-century slave. The portrait of Equiano in European dress and holding a Bible challenges stereotypes of blacks as “savages” incapable of becoming civilized.
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition
Copyright © W.W. Norton & Company
The title page of Olaudah Equiano’s account of his life.

5. Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Slavery and Empire
-7.7 million Africans transported to New World between (328 yrs) -Regular business involving European merchants, African slave traders, and American planters. -First mass consumer goods in international trade were produced by slaves: sugar, rice, coffee, tobacco. -Increasing European demand for these products fueled the Atlantic slave trade.
U.S. A. outlawed importation of slaves 1/1/1820. Brazil outlawed slavery in 1888.

6. Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Atlantic Trade
A series of trade routes crisscrossed the Atlantic. Colonial merchants profited from the slave trade, even in areas where slavery was a minor institution (New England.) Slavery became connected with the color black, and liberty with the color white.

7. Map 4.1 Atlantic Trading Routes
Series of trading routes crisscrossing the Atlantic, bringing manufactured goods to Africa and Britain’s American colonies; slaves to the New World; colonial products to Europe.
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition
Copyright © W.W. Norton & Company
Map 4.1 Atlantic Trading Routes

8. The Atlantic slave trade was concentrated in West Africa.
Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Africa and the Slave Trade
Most African rulers took part in the slave trade, gaining guns, textiles, and rum in exchange for their slaves.
The Atlantic slave trade was concentrated in West Africa.

9. Map 4.2 The Slave Trade in The Atlantic World, 1460–1770
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition
Copyright © W.W. Norton & Company
Map 4.2 The Slave Trade in The Atlantic World, 1460–1770

10. Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the voyage across the Atlantic for African slaves.
Slaves were crammed aboard ship for maximum profit.
Slave traders took the vast majority of slaves to Brazil and the West Indies, where death rates were high.
Fewer than 5 percent of African slaves went to what became the United States, where the slave population increased steadily due to natural reproduction.

11. An architect’s plan for a slave ship.
These drawings illustrate the conditions under which slaves endured the Middle Passage across the Atlantic.
Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd Edition
Copyright © W.W. Norton & Company
An architect’s plan for a slave ship.

12. Classwork for Tuesday September 29
Quick five question T/F quiz on homework reading (Homework grade/ 10%)
PPT Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction through The Middle Passage.
3. History beyond the textbook. Go to:
(The Middle Passage, by Steve Mintz)
Read, Research, and Write a well-constructed paragraph on what you found most interesting about this article, and why.
(Classwork grade/20%)

13. Homework due Wednesday September 30
Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to Reading and notes on, pp , Chesapeake Slavery through Slavery in the North.
For tomorrow, be prepared to answer a five-question True/False quiz based on your homework reading. (Homework grade 10%)