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Bellwork-Hide in the photograph: Describe what you can see, smell, feel,
and touch, and hear from your hiding place.
EQ: What was Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage?
TSWABT understand Triangular Trade HW: Brochure
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Objectives
The students will be able to summarize triangular
trade and slavery describing it's effect on the
American colonies as well as resistance to slavery
with 80% accuracy
Where does this fit into your unit learning goal
scale?
Yes, Goal I
How do you reach mastery?
Update TOC: Triangular Trade Cornell pg.
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1. Vocabulary to
Know:
• triangular trade – a three-way trade between
the New World, Europe and Africa
• racism – the belief that one race is superior or
inferior to another
• slave codes – strict laws that restricted the
rights and activities of slaves to keep slaves
from revolting.
• Middle Passage- brutal voyage between Africa
and the new world aboard a slave ship
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2. How did slavery start in the
colonies?
Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese settlers
were the first to bring enslaved Africans to
the Americas.
Slavery spread to the colonies, where it
became a regular part of trade and
provided cheap labor to Southern
plantations.
Southern economy was dependent on slave
labor
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The British, Dutch,
and French entered
the slave trade.
In time, English
colonists— were
shipping enslaved
Africans across the
Atlantic.
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What was the slave trade?
Slave traders set up posts along the African coast.
Africans who lived on the coast made raids into
the interior, seeking captives to sell to the
Europeans.
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What was the middle passage?
Half of the captives died on forced marches to the
coast, some of which were as long as 300 miles.
Once they arrived at the coasts, captives were
traded for guns and other goods.
Then they were sent across the Atlantic Ocean on
a brutal voyage known as the Middle Passage.
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To increase their profits, some slave-ship captains
crammed the maximum number of captives on board.
15 to 20 percent
of enslaved
Africans died or
committed
suicide during
the Middle
Passage.
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Bellwork: Describe what this photo
means to you. What emotions are
present when you look at it?
EQ: What was the Middle Passage
TSWBAT evaluate the experience of
AA
HW: Brochure due TOMORROW
(MUST BE TURNED IN WITH
RUBRIC AND RESEARCH
ORGANIZER)
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What happened in
America?
In the Americas,
healthy enslaved
Africans were
auctioned off, and
families often were
separated.
About 500,000
enslaved Africans
ended up in British
North America.
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What was Triangular Trade?
By about 1700, slave traders in the British
colonies had developed a regular routine, known
as the triangular trade.
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Triangular Trade
First Leg
• Sugar, tobacco, and cotton to Europe
Second
Leg
• Textiles, rum, and manufactured good to Europe
Third
Leg
• Slaves to the Americans (Middle Passage)
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How did slavery grow?
The first enslaved Africans in the colonies may
have been treated as servants, and some
eventually were freed.
But as the need for cheap
labor grew, colonies made
slavery permanent.
Some colonies tried to
ban slavery, but it
eventually became
legal in all the colonies.
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Why did slavery take root in the
colonies?
• The plantation system led the
southern economy to depend on
slavery.
• Planters preferred slaves because
while indentured servants were freed
after their terms were over, slaves
were slaves for life.
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Not every African in America was a slave, but
slavery came to be restricted to people of African
descent, and slavery was thus linked to racism.
Most English colonists thought they were superior
to Africans.
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There were so many slaves in the colonies that
whites began to worry about slave revolts.
The first serious slave revolt took place in 1663 in
Gloucester, Virginia, and others soon followed.
Enslaved
Africans
Colonists
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What were slave codes?
Colonial authorities wrote slave codes that said
enslaved people could not:
• meet in large numbers or own weapons.
• leave a plantation without permission.
• learn to read and write.
Slave codes were written in fear of slave uprisings
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THE EXPERIENCE OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
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