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African Slave Trade
Essential Question
• How did African
slavery influence
the development
of the Americas?
Columbian Exchange• Many things were traded
back and forth between
Europe and the Americas.
• Europeans brought Sugar
Cane to the Caribbean
– Sugar Cane is originally
from Asia
– They found that Sugar
Cane grew very well in the
Caribbean and in Brazil.
Question 1: Why do you think
Europeans wanted sugar
so bad?
Columbian Exchange• Sugar cane required
massive amounts of labor.
• At first, Europeans tried to enslave the natives.
– This didn’t work
Question 2: Why do you think it didn’t work?
• Most natives had already died of diseases and those that were left didn’t make good slaves.
– They died very easily or would run away
Columbian Exchange
• Europeans needed to find a large, cheap source of labor
Question 3: Where do you think they found it?
• Africans were captured from Western Africa and brought to Brazil and the Caribbean to work on these large plantations.– Africans could survive a lot
longer under slave conditions than Natives.
• Many Africans would die on the voyage, so they
had to cram as many in as possible.
La Amistad
Triangular Trade• Before African slavery
began, the Columbian
Exchange was limited
to Europe and the
Americas.
Triangular Trade
• After the African
Slave Trade was
introduced, a third
continent took part in
the Columbian
Exchange; Africa.
• This trade between
the three continents
was referred to as
Triangular Trade.
Triangular Trade
Effects of Slavery in Latin America
• Slavery made the colonies of Latin America dependent on the plantation system.
• In order for this system to work, slaves had to continually be brought from Africa to replace the ones who had died.
• As a result, the population of Africa began to decrease.
• This mistreatment
caused many Africans
to be upset by this
mistreatment and
lead revolts.
Effects of Slavery in Latin America
• Also, African slaves replaced many of the populations in some places.
– EX: Haiti and Jamaica’s native populations were almost entirely replaced by Africans
– If you go to Haiti today, most citizens are of African descent.
Haitian Foreign Ministers
Effects of African Slavery
• Also, many Africans intermarried with Europeans in the Caribbean– People who were ½
African and ½ European were called Mulatto
– Many Mulatto people still live in Latin America today
– Cuban people are Mulatto
Conclusion
• African slavery was used to keep the plantation system going in the Americas.
• The Slave Trade caused the population of Africa to decrease.
• Due to this horrible mistreatment, many slaves led revolts and some even earned their freedom.
• The influence of the slave trade can still be seen in Latin America’s culture today.
Major Ethnic Groups
• Mestizos - People of mixed Native
American and Spanish descent
–Make up a large portion of the
populations of Mexico, Central
America, Chile, Paraguay.
–Mestizo culture is mostly Spanish
Catholic along with some Native
American traditions.
• Mulattos -
Mixed African
and European
ancestry.
–Cuban
people are
Mulatto
• Indegenas –
Native American
ancestry.
–Majority of the
population in
Bolivia, Peru,
and
Guatemala.
• Some places in Latin America have
people with all European ancestry.
–Ex: 75% of Costa Rica’s population
is all European descent.
Question 4: What do you think
caused there to be such a mixture
of cultures in Latin America?