TransAtlantic Slave Trade
Create a chart like the one below to take notes on some of the important issues concerning the emergence of slavery
Issue Notes
Slave labor
Transatlantic Trade/ Middle Passage
racism
Slavery-process of holding a person in bondage for labor
Enslaved Africans –immune to diseases, no family to help them escape in America, permanent source of cheap labor (children become slaves, many worked on farms in Africa.
Voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas, middle leg of triangular trade between Europe, Africa & Americas, 12 million Africans traveled on middle passage, 2 million died on the trip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo79PHVI-ck&feature=related Middle Passage
Slave Captives
SLAVE CAPTIVES
• Holding Cell in Africa
Door of No Return
Shackles for Arms and Legs
Shackles
• Neck Harness
Slaves Packed on Ship
Men & Boys Starving
Issue Notes
Slave labor
Transatlantic Trade/ Middle passage
racism
Slavery-passage of holding a person in bondage for labor
Enslaved Africans –immune to diseases, no family to help them escape in America, permanent source of cheap labor (children become slaves, many worked on farms in Africa.
Voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas, middle leg of triangular trade between Europe, Africa & Americas, 12 million Africans traveled on middle passage, 2 million died on the trip
Slavery led to the belief that some people are inferior because of their race.
What words come to mind?
Imagining the Horrors• African Slave Trade- What words come to mind?
Write down as many as you can. (1:29 secs)• On the Middle Passage- What are you feeling? Pain?
Anger? Sadness? Etc. (3:34 secs)• White Americas’ Fear- What pictures come to mind?
Draw as many as possible. (5:41 secs)• History of Black Slavery- What questions or thoughts
do you have now? (4:30 secs)– Stop @ 1:20 1:28– Stop @ 3:00 3:10
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