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Triangular Trade & Slavery. Review. What was the Columbian Exchange? What was the Triangular Trade?. Causes of slavery in the New World?. Europeans needed a source of labor in the New World Gold & silver mining Sugarcane farming. Why were African slaves used?.
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Review • What was the Columbian Exchange? • What was the Triangular Trade?
Causes of slavery in the New World? • Europeans needed a source of labor in the New World • Gold & silver mining • Sugarcane farming
Why were African slaves used? • Native Americans made bad slaves • Died from diseases, fled into wilderness, weren’t used to farming • Europeans didn’t want to do hard labor themselves (only wanted to profit from it) • Established practice of slavery in Africa • Africans familiar with farming
Effects of Slavery? • Millions of Africans sent to the New World • Untold numbers dead during Middle Passage • Set precedent for slavery in New World • Plantation owners grew rich from slave labor