1. Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage
SOCIAL STUDIES 7

2. TRIANGULAR TRADE THE WORLD AROUND 1750 *Create a definition for
CHEAP MANUFACTURED GOODS
TRIANGULAR TRADE
Trinkets – pots, pans, beads, shells, cloth
SLAVES WERE USED ON PLANTATIONS, GROWING SUGAR, TOBACCO, COTTON.
THIRD STAGE – RAW MATERIALS SENT TO EUROPE
Profits from slave sales were used to buy produce from the plantations e.g.. sugar, tobacco, cotton, which were sold for great profit in Europe.
Cheap trinkets exchanged for slaves
FIRST STAGE – EUROPE TO AFRICA
U.S.A.
TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES , OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED
Mexico
Caribbean Islands
SECOND STAGE - THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
SLAVE TRADERS THEN SOLD THE SLAVES TO PLANTATION OWNERS
*Create a definition for
Triangular trade
Brazil
THE ‘MIDDLE PASSAGE’ – THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE ATLANTIC..
THE WORLD AROUND 1750

4. Middle Passage – passage across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Americas that was the route of the African American slave trade. Where were the majority of enslaved Africans taken?

5. A typical cargo included:
A Typical Slave Ship, at port in London’s East India docks – getting ready for the next slave run.
A typical cargo included:
IRON BARS
COWRIE SHELLS

6. Number of people enslaved
30 million taken from their homes
10 million die during capture phase
10 million die during middle passage
10 million survive to make it over the ocean

7. Tight Pack - Loose Pack
This model [right] and the charts were used by slave reformers at the end of the 18th century, to show how a Liverpool slave ship of 320 tons could carry 400 slaves. On one voyage the ship carried 609 slaves.

8. Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave ships.

9. SLAVES FOR SALE

11. Amistad Rebellion was a revolt in 1839 by black slaves against Spaniards who had bought them
Although the rebels had control La Amistad, they did not know how to sail or navigate it
The slaves ordered the ships owners to sail back to Africa, instead they sailed to New York
courts ruled that the rebels had been free people who were illegally enslaved and thus were justified in rebelling
Mutiny on the Amistad

12. Africa Europe Americas
Discussion questions: 1. How was each continents’ population affected? 2. How would a population shift/change affect each continent’s
culture? 3. Was the trade beneficial or detrimental to each continent?
Africa
Americas
Europe