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Warm up

Warm up. Explain how you think the slave trade began. Primary Source. Read the first hand account of what it was like for slaves during the Middle passage on while being sold and answer the accompanying questions. Columbian Exchange.

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Warm up

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  1. Warm up • Explain how you think the slave trade began.

  2. Primary Source • Read the first hand account of what it was like for slaves during the Middle passage on while being sold and answer the accompanying questions

  3. Columbian Exchange • Triangular trading network between Europe, America and African ports during colonial ( 1500’s-1800’s) • Path: Europe » Africa » North America » Europe

  4. Item received here: • Europe: Raw materials; ex: cotton, tobacco, Sugar • Africa: Rum, guns, textiles • America: Slaves, rum, textiles

  5. Origins of African Slaves First slave ships arrived in the colonies in 1619 Beginning of African slavery in America

  6. Why African’s? • Began in Portugal • Prince Henry wanted to find a route to Asia by sailing around Africa • First slaves in Portugal in 1444 • Other European nations followed • Eventually slavery spread to the United States because all the Native Americans (first slaves in the US) died from diseases (smallpox, cholerea, typhus) brought to them by Europeans

  7. Portugal

  8. Began as quest for gold and spices • Became trade network of exporting African slaves • First slaves in Portugal in 1444 • Other European nations followed • Slavery outlawed in England in the 1772. Why did it continue in colonies?

  9. Slavery in colonies was motivated by capitalism. • Plantation system depended upon that labor to be financially viable

  10. Pictures of slavery institutions • http://www.history.com/topics/slavery/photos#

  11. Description of Middle Passage • 5 ½ * 2 space for 2 slaves in the bottom of the ship surrounded by hundreds of other slaves with no air circulation, shackled to the ground and not given any other space to go to the bathroom- lasted 5-12 months • 20% of slaves on the trip died on ship • Men brought over on the ship were offered a better chance at survival than those in Africa. – Why?

  12. Process of kidnapping • Most slaves came from the ports of West Africa from Senegal to Angola- Identities taken • African Kings would round them up and trade them for alcohol and weapons • European companies would buy them by the thousands at the African ports

  13. Amistad- Middle Passage • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTGiWeRCWc

  14. "Every morning, perhaps, more instances than one are found of the living and the dead fastened together."John Newton - Slave Ship Captain • Why is John Newton important? • He later wrote the song “Amazing Grace” about his experiences on the ships and how it changes his life. • Later became a proponent of abolition

  15. What was the main reason the civil war was fought?

  16. Slavery in the colonies • Slavery increased greatly in 1800’. • What else is going on in history at this time? • Think back to World History…. • In South Carolina the number of Africans outnumbered the European colonists

  17. Resistence to Slavery • Slaves would find ways to derail the planting projects they were involved in by faking illness, breaking tools and staging work slow downs • StonoRebellion • The rebellion was stopped after a few days but it was an eye opening experience for the masters of the South and led to a tightening of slave laws • Running away was also very popular- found refuge among Native American tribes

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