COL155 Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Jonathan Fulton Spring 2014.
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade The Age of Exploration 1400-1800 CE World History Arvada West Senior High Thomson
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Age of Exploration 1400-1800 CE World History Arvada West Senior High Thomson. The “Columbian Exchange”. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization. Explorers. Conquistadores. Official European Colony!. Missionaries. Permanent Settlers. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeThe Age of Exploration 1400-1800 CE
World HistoryArvada West Senior High
Thomson
The “Columbian Exchange” Squash Avocado Peppers Sweet
Potatoes Turkey Pumpkin Tobacco Quinine Cocoa
Pineapple Cassava POTATO
Peanut TOMATO Vanilla MAIZE Syphilis
Olive COFFEE BEAN Banana Rice Onion Turnip Honeybee Barley Grape Peach SUGAR
CANE Oats
Citrus Fruits Pear Wheat HORSE Cattle Sheep Pigs
Smallpox Flu Typhus Measles Malaria Diptheria Whooping
Cough
Trinkets Liquor GUNS
Cycle of Conquest & Colonization
Explorers Conquistadores
Mission
aries
PermanentSettlers
OfficialEuropeanColony!
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeEarly Encounters 1400’s CE
Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans
Muslim, Christian traders, and pilgrimsPortuguese:
Looking for new trade routes to India Controlled West African cities with violence Replaced European slaves with Africans
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeThe Slave Trade 1500’s – 1800’s
Throughout world history there has always been slavery
Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc…Slavery was never a lucrative & profitable
business: Profitable for European Traders & African chiefs Slaves were needed to work in the New World
Sugar cane & sugar plantations First boatload of slaves of African slaves brought by
the Spanish in 1518 CE
Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill
Slave Ship
“Middle Passage”
“Coffin” Position Below Deck
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeTriangle Trade:
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeEffects
Numbers 1500’s – 2000 slaves/year sent to the Americas 1780’s – 80,000/year 11 million total 2 million died
African CaptivesThrown Overboard
Sharks followed the slave ships!
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeEffects cont…
Youth population declined in West AfricaEntire cities disappearedAfrican resistance:
King Alfonso I of Kongo believed contact with the Europeans could be beneficial, but the slave trade was evil
His appeal failed
The Trans-Atlantic Slave TradeBasic Terms:
Racism – The idea that some races are superior to others.
White Man’s Burden – The idea that the white man must “civilize” the “backward” people of the world.
Slavery – A condition in which one human being is owned by another. Considered as property and deprived of most rights by free persons.
Triangle Trade – Ships sailed the legs of a triangle formed by Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
