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The Transatlantic Slave Trade
In this lesson, students will be able to define the following terms:
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Reasons for the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The Middle Passage
The Treatment of Slaves in the Americas
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Many Native American Indians diedfrom smallpox disease.
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Disease and Death
• Many Native American Indians died from the smallpox disease introduced by the European conquerors.
• Many Native American Indians also died from the harsh working conditions imposed by the Europeans.
• Theses deaths created a need for a work force.
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Europeans decided to use African slaves to replace a dying Indian population.
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The Transatlantic Slave Trade• Slavery had always existed but the
Transatlantic Slave Trade expanded slavery on a massive scale.
• Europeans removed millions of Africans between the 1500s to the 1800s.
• Africans were stripped of their language and culture and forced to labor on plantations in the Americas.
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Enslaved Africans were usually capturedby warring African tribes and traded
to European and American slave traders.
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Captured Slaves
• Enslaved Africans were usually captured by warring African tribes and traded to European and American slave traders.
• Slaves were traded in exchange for guns and other goods.
• Captured Africans were brought across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.
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The “Middle Passage” was the voyageacross the Atlantic to the Americas.
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The Middle Passage
• The “Middle Passage” was the journey from Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
• It was a long and brutal journey.
• Many slaves died during the “Middle Passage”.
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CapturedAfricans
were crammed
intosmall
quartersduring the
Middle Passage.
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The Costs of Slavery
• African slaves were robbed of their language, labor, and culture.
• They were forced to labor under brutal conditions in the Americas.
• While the use of African slaves enriched Europeans and American settlers, it greatly harmed Africans and Africa.
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African slaves encounteredbrutality and cruelty on plantations
in the Americas.
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African slaves were brought tosugar plantations in the Caribbean
and large farms in Brazil.
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Questions for Reflection:
• Why did many Native American Indians die?
• How did the deaths of Native American Indians affect Africans?
• What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
• Why did so many Africans die during the “Middle Passage”?
• How did slavery harm Africans and Africa?