The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Atlantic Slave Trade WORLD HISTORY NOTES
DATE: _____________
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Origins of the Slave Trade
➢ High demand for labor!
o __________- estates where cash crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown on large scale.
➢ Shortage of Labor (Why?)
o Planter had first used Native Americans as workers, but __________________ had killed millions of them.
➢ ______________________ were too expensive!
Triangular Trade
➢ ____________________- trading network lasting from the 1600’s to the 1800’s that carried goods and enslaved people between __________________________.
Middle Passage
➢ ________________________- the name for voyages that brought ___________________ across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
Statistics on Slave Ships
➢ Journey: ________________________
➢ _________% of Africans died on voyage
➢ ________________________________
o Adolescent Males between the ages of 18 – 25 were the most expensive
o Women were prized because they could reproduce and add to their master’s wealth
Slavery in the Colonies
➢ Worked in:
o ________________
o ________________
o ________________
o ________________
➢ Women performed domestic duties as ________ or _______________.
Fear of Slave REBELLION!
➢ Many slave owners didn’t teach their slaves to ____________, why? ________________________________________________________________
o The church services usually only read from the ____________________ about the suffering of Christ, and avoided the _____________________ about Moses and the Exodus.
➢ There were stiff punishments for even the most minor offenses.
Slave Resistance
➢ Coped with ___________________________ by:
o Keeping cultural traditions alive
o Turned to religion
o ____________________________________
o Attacked slaveholders families
o ____________________________________!
Effects of the Slave Trade
➢ Atlantic Slave trade continues for _______________________
o __________________________________ Africans shipped to Americas
➢ The labor of African slaves helped build the economies of the American colonies.
➢ ____________________________- the dispersal of people of African descent throughout the Americas and Western Europe due to the slave trade.
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