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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

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.

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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

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  1. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade The Age of Exploration 1400-1800 CE World History Arvada West Senior High Thomson

  2. The “Columbian Exchange”

  3. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Explorers Conquistadores OfficialEuropeanColony! Missionaries PermanentSettlers

  4. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  5. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • Early Encounters 1400’s CE • Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans • Muslim, Christian traders, and pilgrims • Portuguese: • Looking for new trade routes to India • Controlled West African cities with violence • Replaced European slaves with Africans

  6. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • The 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

  7. Slaves Working in a Brazilian Sugar Mill

  8. Slave Ship “Middle Passage”

  9. “Coffin” Position Below Deck

  10. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • Triangle Trade:

  11. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • Effects • Numbers • 1500’s – 2000 slaves/year sent to the Americas • 1780’s – 80,000/year • 11 million total • 2 million died

  12. African CaptivesThrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships!

  13. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • Effects cont… • Youth population declined in West Africa • Entire cities disappeared • African resistance: • King Alfonso I of Kongo believed contact with the Europeans could be beneficial, but the slave trade was evil • His appeal failed

  14. The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade • Basic 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.

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