Triangular Trade
and the
Middle Passage
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CHEAP MANUFACTURED
GOODS
Trinkets – pots, pans
beads, shells, cloth
SLAVES WERE USED
ON PLANTATIONS,
GROWING SUGAR,
TOBACCO, COTTON.
U.S.A.
TRIBAL CHIEFS EXCHANGE SLAVES ,
OR SLAVES ARE CAPTURED
Mexico
Caribbean
Islands
SLAVE TRADERS THEN
SOLD THE SLAVES TO
PLANTATION OWNERS
*Create a definition for
Triangular trade
Brazil
THE ‘MIDDLE PASSAGE’ –
THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE
ATLANTIC..
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Middle Passage – passage across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to
the Americas that was the route of the African American slave trade.
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Where were the majority of enslaved Africans taken?
A Typical Slave Ship,
at port in London’s
East India docks –
getting ready for the
next slave run.
A typical cargo
included:
IRON BARS
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COWRIE SHELLS
Number of people enslaved
30
million taken
from their homes
•10 million die during
capture phase
•10 million die
during middle
passage
•10 million survive to
make it over the ocean
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This model [right] and the charts
were used by slave reformers at the
end of the 18th century, to show how
a Liverpool slave ship of 320 tons
could carry 400 slaves. On one
voyage the ship carried 609 slaves.
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• Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave
ships.
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Amistad Rebellion was a revolt in 1839 by
black slaves against Spaniards who had
bought them
Although the rebels had control La Amistad,
they did not know how to sail or navigate it
The slaves ordered the ships owners to sail
back to Africa, instead they sailed to New
York
courts ruled that the rebels had been free
people who were illegally enslaved and thus
were justified in rebelling
Mutiny on the Amistad
Discussion questions:
1. How was each continents’ population affected?
2. How would a population shift/change affect each continent’s
culture?
3. Was the trade beneficial or detrimental to each continent?
Africa
Americas Europe