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THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADESection 2
European expansion and slave trade affected the people of
Africa.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnV_MTFEGIY
Trade, Colonies and MercantilismEuropean trade=economic revolution
Capitalism (private ownership & investment-not government.)
Joint –stock companies invest in trading posts, &colonies.
Mercantilism –Nations prosperity depended on wealth (bullion-Gold and Silver). Establish
Colonies Balance of trade
Export (sell) more goods than import (buy)high tariffs on foreign goods. Colonies =raw materials & finished goods market
The Ideals of Mercantilism
THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADESugar & Tobacco plantations required workers-cheap
Native American #’s dropped –disease enslaved Africans shipped to Americas.
Immune to European diseaseFarming ExperienceLess likely to escape-no way home
Spanish & Portuguese lead trade
THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADETriangular trade 1500-1870
connected Europe, Africa, & Americas together. European goods to Africa for slavesSlaves to the Americas -middle passage.Merchants buy raw materials and sell in Europe
Slave Ship PlanSlave Ship Plan
“Coffin” Position: Onboard a Slave Ship“Coffin” Position: Onboard a Slave Ship
Onboard the Slave ShipOnboard the Slave Ship
Revolt Aboard a Slave ShipRevolt Aboard a Slave Ship
THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADEResults of Slavery on Africa
Started as prisoners of war-evolved into kidnapping Europeans and Africans ProfitedKing Afonso protested
African villages lost fittest members, families torn apart, depopulationExample: Benin
Section 2 ReviewPaying for Europeans for labor upset
trade, growing sugarcane was labor intensive, native American population was small due to diseases brought from Europe. These were all reasons why slaves were needed in the __ .
The Caribbean 17th century economic theoryMercantilism
Section 2 ReviewIncreased warfare, depopulation of some
areas, deterioration of art and culture. All of these were impacts of the__.
Slave trade on African societySlaves from Africa were obtained by
Europeans fromAfrican slave what? merchants.
Section 2 ReviewThe pattern of trade connecting Europe,
Africa, and the American continents.Triangular tradeSlave owners in the sixteenth century
discouraged slaves from having offspring because?
Believed that buying a new slave was less expensive then raising a child.
Large agricultural estatesplantations
Section 2 ReviewCrop introduced to Europe from
Southwest AsiaSugarcaneKing Alfonso of Congo wrote a letter in
1526 to the king of Portugal describing ?The corruption of the slave trade and how
it was depopulating his country .The journey of slaves from Africa to
AmericaMiddle Passage
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