The Atlantic Slave Trade PDF

Atlantic Slave Trade Why did the Europeans need to obtain African labor when millions were already in the Americas? Class Agenda for February 5, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how slave trade began and created long-reaching consequences in the Americas 3. Ess...

Atlantic Slave Trade Why did the Europeans need to obtain African labor when millions were already in the Americas? Class Agenda for February 5, 2024 1. Review Warm-up Question 2. Learning Objective: SWBAT understand how slave trade began and created long-reaching consequences in the Americas 3. Essential Question: Why did Europeans need to use African-slave labor to settle the Americas? 4. Meme/Thought of the Day 5. Academic Vocabulary and definitions 6. Homework: Please read the Textbook Reading on, The Atlantic Slave Trade. read pp. 132-136 and the assessment (1-8) The History of Slavery goes back past 3500 BCE, captives of war became slaves in most cultures 650-1600 CE, Muslims bought and sold captives as slaves from wars in Africa and the Middle East Since 1400, Portuguese traded with Africans but were interested in Gold not slaves Everything changed after colonization… - Need for labor to cultivate lands and to replace native populations who were devastated by disease Advantages to use African labor - Immunity to European diseases - Knowledge of farming - Less likely to escape, unfamiliar with the land - Skin color, easier to find if they escaped The Atlantic Slave trade Growth, and want for labor… not need 1500-1600, 300,000 slaves were taken from Africa 1600 and 1700s, 1.3 million slave were taken By 1870, over 9.5 million slaves had been brought to the Americas - The number is most likely much higher Spain and Portugal led the Slave Trade in the Caribbean and South America Cheap labor and Cash crops (most crops) - Sugar, Tobacco, eventually Cotton, and many others England and the Slave trade 1690-1807, 1.7 million Africans - England abolished slave trade in 1807, slavery compoletely in 1834 800,000 Africans were freed in her colonies - The US needed a civil war In the United States by 1830, 2 million slaves lived there and the population was growing African cooperation and resistance to slavery - Some Africans captured other Africans and sold them to Europeans. - They did it for money, greed, power, local conflicts melded with the slave trade. - There was opposition to slavery… Middle Passage the journey from when the African were captured, crammed into the unlivable conditions of a ship, and transported to the Americas, most died Triangle Trade - Europeans shipped goods to Africa - Goods were traded for captured Africans - Captured Africans were transported & sold to Americas - Merchants–with profits from sold Africans–bought sugar, tobacco, and sold them to Europeans - Rum and other goods from New England were sent to Africa and traded for captured Africans - Captured Africans were transported to the West Indies (Caribbean) - Captured Africans were traded for sugar and Molasses - Sugar and Molasses were sold to rum producers in New England “...and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, Death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me eatables; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely.” - Olaudah Equiano What are the Consequences of the Atlantic Slave Trade? - In Africa, numerous cultures lost generations of people - Families were torn apart - The introduction of guns to Africa - Depopulation of the continent - In the Americas - Contributed greatly to the development of American culture, population, music, art, and their labor - Jazz, R&B, Rock n’ Roll, and many others But the stain of slavery is throughout the Americas - North and South, struggles for equality infected the country, creating strife, and suffering - African Americans fought bravely in WWI and WWII, but had few rights in the US - Jim Crow Laws Separate but equal Segregation Institutional Racism Black Lives Matter Black History Month