Slave Trade.pdf

Monday, September 23rd 20 24 Agenda ( link to slides) 1. Table Talk 2. The Atlantic Slave Trade Table Talk: If you had 1 BILLION DOLLARS what is the first thing you would buy? Why?...

Monday, September 23rd 20 24 Agenda ( link to slides) 1. Table Talk 2. The Atlantic Slave Trade Table Talk: If you had 1 BILLION DOLLARS what is the first thing you would buy? Why? 1 Tuesday, September 24th 20 24 Agenda ( link to slides) 1. Table Talk 2. The Middle Passage/Atlantic Slave Table Talk: Trade When is the last time you did something nice for someone? How did it make you feel? If you had the opportunity, would you do it again? 2  Essential Questions ✗ What was the middle passage 3 Atlantic Slave Trade Beginnings When Europeans came to the New World they introduced new diseases that wiped out many Indigenous people who they intended to use for labor They saw Africa as a place to exchange resources like guns and clothes for people they could use for labor Slavery has long been a part of human history but race based slavery, buying, selling, inheriting people as property is what made European and AMerican slavery particularly horrible 10-12 million slaves were imported to the Americas and the Carribean 4  Where were slaves taken from and to? Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Angola, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon and Ivory Coast 5  Triangular Trade ✗ Europeans would travel to Africa to trade items like weapons, clothes, alcohol etc for enslaved Africans and gold ✗ Enslaved Africans would be transported to the Americas/Caribbean in exchange for raw materials (sugar, tobacco, metals, cotton) ✗ Raw materials would be shipped back to Europe to be processed into tradable goods and the cycle would begin again 6 The Middle Passage The 8-12 week journey from Africa to the Western World Africans were chained and crammed into slave ships packing as many as possible Many died of disease and starvation, abuse or VIDEO 1 suicide VIDEO 2 Those who lived were forced to dwell in the own excrement and other dead bodies...imagine Roughly 20% of enslaved Africans taken did not make the journey 7  EXIT TICKET On a separate sheet of paper create a 3 column Chart and label it Women, Men, and Children, in each column write 2 sentences that answers the following… Describe how it may feel to be an enslaved person arriving on the shores of a foreign country you have never seen before. After surviving being captured, and Women Men Children the middle passage, what do you think was going through their minds? Think about men, women, and children and the different worries each of them had. (2 sentences minimum per colum) 8