The Middle Passage
“Hell Below Deck”
What was the Triangular
Trade?
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The Triangular Trade was a
trade route between three
different places. What were
they?
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Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
Which journey was known
as the middle passage?
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Europe
A
B
The
Caribbean Islands
C
Africa
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Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
What was carried on
the ships sailing from
Africa to the
Caribbean?
Europe
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The
Africa
Caribbean Islands
Manufactured Goods
Enslaved People
Raw Materials
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Europe
‘Never can so much misery be found condensed in
so small a place as in a slave ship during the middle
passage’
William Wilberforce
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
“This trade was so considerable that, while it was in a
flourishing state, there were above 20,000 Negroes
yearly exported from Guinea Coast.”
Captain William Snelgrave 1754
Which journey was known
as the outward passage?
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Europe
A
B
The
Caribbean Islands
C
Africa
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Ships known as ‘slavers’ left British
ports such as London, Bristol and
Liverpool for West Africa loaded with
trade goods. These would include guns,
gunpowder
Theand ammunition, brass and
ironware, alcohol, cotton cloth, glass
beads andCaribbean
trinkets. Islands
.
Europe
Africa
What was carried on
the ships sailing from
Europe to Africa?
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Europe
The
Africa
Caribbean Islands
Manufactured Goods
Enslaved People
Raw Materials
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Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
Which journey was known
as the Homeward Passage?
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Europe
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B
The
Caribbean Islands
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Africa
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Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
What was carried on
the ships sailing from
The Caribbean to
Europe?
Europe
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The
Africa
Caribbean Islands
Manufactured Goods
Enslaved People
Raw Materials
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Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
In 1783 the Pinney’s Mountravers plantation on the
island of Nevis was producing about 30,000 kg of sugar a
year and 33,000 litres of rum.
Africa
The hard labour of enslaved Africans led to
great wealth and riches for European
countries, particularly Britain which traded in
sugar, tobacco and cotton produced by slaves
on plantations. .
Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
Triangle Trade
North America
Molasses
Rum, weapons
The Carribean
Africa
Slaves
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Middle Passage Vocabulary
#1 - Ration
Definition – a fixed amount of
food given to people on a daily
basis
#2 - Origin
Definition – Where something
started (original)
#3 - Arduous
Definition – Difficult or hard to
do
#4 – Inadequate Ventilation
Definition – not enough air to
breathe
#5 - Stagnant
Definition – a standing pool of
water that is not flowing or moving.
#6 - Uprising
Definition – fighting back against
someone or some group; a
rebellion
#7 – Cat-o-Nine Tails
Definition – a whip used to
punish slaves
#8 - Shackles
Definition – chains used to
restrain/hold the slaves
#9 - Infamous
Definition – Having a bad
reputation
Middle Passage Vocabulary and
Short Answer test today…..Have
your sentences ready to hand in.
Hell Below Deck Slides
The hard labour of enslaved Africans led to
great wealth and riches for European
countries, particularly Britain which traded in
sugar, tobacco and cotton produced by slaves
on plantations. .
Europe
The
Caribbean Islands
Africa
This engraving, entitled An African man being inspected for sale
into slavery while a white man talks with African slave traders,
appeared in the detailed account of a former slave ship captain
and was published in 1854.
“The men who fastened irons on the mothers took the
children out of their hands and threw them over the side of the
ship into the water. Two of the women leaped overboard after
the children…One of the two women…was carried down by
the weight of her irons before she could be rescued; but the
other was taken up by some men in a boat and brought on
board. This woman threw herself overboard one night when
we were at sea.”
Source: The African American Experience. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Globe Book Company, 1992. 40.
What happened to each of the women above, and why did it
happen?
One woman drowned trying to save her baby after it was
thrown overboard. The other woman, who had also jumped
overboard to save her baby, was rescued. However, she later
jumped overboard again, committing suicide.
The slave ship Brookes with 482 people packed onto the decks. The
drawing of the slave ship Brookes was distributed by the Abolitionist
Society in England as part of their campaign against the slave trade,
and dates from 1789.
Interior of a Slave Ship, a woodcut illustration from the
publication, A History of the Amistad Captives, reveals how
hundreds of slaves could be held within a slave ship. Tightly
packed and confined in an area with just barely enough
room to sit up, slaves were known to die from a lack of
breathable air.
• Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave
ships.
THIS is the Vessel that had
the Small-Pox on Board at the
Time of her Arrival the 31st of
March last: Every necessary
Precaution hath since been
taken to cleanse both Ship
and Cargo thoroughly, so that
those who may be inclined to
purchase need not be under
the least Apprehension of
Danger from Infliction.
The NEGROES are allowed
to be the likeliest Parcel that
have been imported this
Season.
• Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave
ships.
• Diseases, such as dysentery, malaria, and smallpox killed
thousands of Africans.
• From 13% - 20% of the Africans aboard slave ships died
during the Middle Passage.
• Between 1699 and
1845 there were 55
successful African
uprisings on slave
ships.
William Snelgrave,
from A New Account
of Some Parts of
Guinea, and the Slave
Trade