THE ALANTIC SLAVE TRADESection 2

European expansion and slave trade affected the people of

Africa.

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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