The Atlantic Slave Trade

1. The Atlantic Slave Trade Chapter 16 section 4

2. Key Terms • Plantation • Triangular Trade • Middle passage • OlaudahEquiano • Africa Diaspora

3. The Atlantic Slave Trade • Shortage of labor • Needed large numbers of workers • Plantations- estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on a large scale • First used Native Americans

4. The Atlantic Slave Trade • European diseases killed millions • 1600’s plantations used indentured servants • People worked for a set amount of time to pay for their passage • These workers were expensive to support

5. The Atlantic Slave Trade • Millions of Africans were taken to the Americas before slave trade ended in the 1800’s • Most came from west Africa, Senegal, and Angola • Some slaves exchanged for firearms, others were kidnapped

6. The Atlantic Slave Trade • Captured slaves were marched to ships • Triangular Trade • First leg were ships carrying goods to Africa • Goods exchanged for slaves • Middle Passage-Africans brought to the Americas to be sold as slaves • Third carried rice, sugar, and tobacco to Europe

9. Middle Passage • Terrifying ordeal • Africans were chained together • Forced into dark quarters below deck • Packed so tight they could not sit or stand • Journey lasted three to six weeks

10. Middle Passage • 10-20 percent did not survive the voyage • Those who reached the Americas were then auctioned off • OlaudahEquiano- wrote about the condition • Stench was so bad • Women shrieking • People moaning and dying

11. Slavery in the Colonies • Slaves taken to Americas • Spanish took slaves to the Caribbean • Portuguese took millions to Brazil • English took most of their slaves to the West Indies • Brought large numbers to the colonies

12. Slavery in the Colonies

13. Living Conditions • Most slaves worked on plantations • Others worked in mines, in towns, and in the countryside • Skilled crafters continued their craft • Carpenters • Metal workers • Coopers • Women give domestic duties

14. Living Conditions • Had to meet their basic needs in a short hours after the workday • Daily tasks • Cooking • Mending clothing • Tending to the sick • Had to fit around the work of the slaveholder

15. Living Conditions • Were harsh • Owners and overseers inflicted physical and degrading punishment for minor offenses • Many slaveholders lived in fear of rebellion

16. Resistance • Laws considered slaves as property • Had no rights or freedoms • Slaveholders controlled living conditions • Slaves endured brutal treatment and abuse • Coped with inhumane conditions

18. Resistance • Some tried to keep their culture alive • Some turned to religion for a better life • Some fought back by • Slowing down their work • Some destroyed equipment • Some revolted • Some ran away

19. Effects of the Slave Trade • Lasted for 400 years • Estimates of 15-20 million slaves were shipped to the Americas • Millions more to Europe, Asia, and the Middle East • Millions died from marching to the coast and on slave ships

20. Effects of the Slave Trade • Slavery deprived millions of their freedom and doomed their descendants to slavery • Captured many of the strongest and future leaders • African waged war their own people and neighbors to gain captives

21. Effects of the Slave Trade • Forced labor did not enrich Africa • African labor built the economies of American colonies • Knowledge of agriculture led to growth of the rice industry • African Diaspora- dispersal of African culture to the western world

22. African Diaspora