Aim: How did the Trans-Atlantic Slave
Trade begin in the Americas?
Do Now: Copy the Vocabulary Terms in your notebook
Trans-Atlantic Slave trade: the enslavement and
transportation, primarily of African people, to the
colonies of the New World
Triangular Trade: Commerce linking Africa, the New
World colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America
for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe
Middle Passage: The voyage from Africa to the United
States that slave traders made in the 1600s to 1800s
Map Activity
► Obtain
Geography Skills Worksheet 20
► Examine the questions first
► Analyze the Map
► Answer the questions that follow
1. What
three continents were involved in
the triangular trade?
2. What
goods were shipped from Boston to
Britain? Britain to Boston?
For each of the following places, write the
letters of the goods it produced. Products
may have more than one source.
3. The West Indies____
4. English Colonies in North America ____
5. The Madeira Islands (off the Coast of Africa) ____
6. Great Britain ____
Slavery within Africa prior to
European Contact
► African
slavery arose long before Europeans
came to the region, probably as early as 1550
BC in Northern Africa.
► Several nations such as the Ashanti of Ghana
and the Yoruba of Nigeria were involved in
slave-trading.
► Nations would wage war on other African states
to capture people for export as slaves.
The Evolution of Slavery in the
Colonies
► English
colonist gradually turned to the use of
African slaves to meet their labor needs.
► In the early days of slavery the English forced
Native Americans to work for them. Native
Americans avoided learning English labor
techniques and could easily escape because they
knew the land.
► African Slaves worked their entire lives and
therefore brought a higher return of an
investment.
► 1690-13,000 Black Slaves, 1750-200,000 Black
slaves were brought to America.
1.
What was this ship used for?
2.
Based on the image, why was this ship built this way?
Triangular Slave Trade
Primary Source Examination
► Obtain
a copy of the Primary sources
► Divide the class into groups of 3
► Underline important words in the document
questions
► Each group member will be responsible for 1
document
► Share your findings with your group
Primary Source Questions
Doc 1
► 1.) Why did the slaves have to lie only on their sides?
► 2.) Why were European slavers packing the slaves so
tightly together?
► Doc 2
► 1.) What would happen to slaves who refused to eat?
► 2.)Why do you think they tortured slaves who did not
want to eat?
► Doc 3
► 1.) Why do you think some slaves wanted to jump
overboard?
► 2.) What did the sailors do to the slave who they rescued
from drowning? Why do you think they did that to him?
►
Slavery in the South
► An
extremely difficult life of bondage in
North America.
► Most slaves worked in the fields.
► 10 to 20 percent worked in the house of
their owners and cooked, cleaned, and
raised their ,masters’ children
In the 1700s, the triangular trade led directly
to the
(1) middle colonies’ role as the chief
importers of agricultural products
(2) rapid industrialization of the southern
colonies
(3) decline of the New England economy
(4) increased importation of enslaved Africans
to the Western Hemisphere
The large numbers and high volume of
Africans in the slave trade was necessary
Because
(A) most Africans escaped from slavery
before arriving in the Americas.
(B) Muslim fleets patrolled the Atlantic coast
of Africa and freed the slaves.
(C) the mortality of slaves was high and their
birth rate was low.
(D) African slaves were also needed on estates
in Europe after the Black Death.
Homework
► Life
Aboard the Slave Ship
► Students will write a first person Narrative
from the point of view of a slave being
brought to the New World or a member of
the crew aboard a slave ship.
► Students must use all vocabulary from the
day’s lesson in their written work.