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Figure 1: Britannica, 2025. Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic slave trade. (Britannica, 2025)
Slavery in the American South
Slavery in the American South
Grade 7
Topics discussed:
Plantations: tobacco, rice, sugar cane and cotton.
Reasons for using slave labour.
How slaves were captured, sold, and transported from West Africa.
Slave markets.
Number of slaves that were taken to America.
What happened to the raw materials that slaves produced?
List of figures:
Figure 1: Britannica, 2025. Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic slave trade. (Britannica, 2025)
Figure 2: Merz, 2019. Slaves on a cotton plantation in the USA in the mid-19th century. (Swiss National Museum, 2025).
Figure 3: South African History Online, 2023. History of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa. (South African History Online, 2023).
Figure 4: Britannica, 2025. Captive Africans being transferred to ships along the Slave Coast for the transatlantic slave trade, c. 1880. (Britannica, 2025).
Figure 5: Wolfe, 2007. The slave deck of the the Bark "Wildfire". (Virginia Humanities, 2025).
Figure 6: BBC, 2020. My Nigerian great-grandfather sold slaves. (BBC 2025).
Figure 7: Bosman, 2012. Elmina Caste. (Wikipedia, 2024).
Figure 8: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, [n.d.]. The Middle Passage, 1749.
Figure 9: Zaborney, 2020. Auctions. (Virginia Humanities, 2025).
Figure 10: Statista, 2019. Estimated annual number of slaves who embarked on ships in Africa and disembarked in the Americas from 1501 to 1866. (Statista, 2019).
Figure 11: Britannica Kids, [n.d.]. The triangular trade was the name for the routes that people in Europe, Africa, and the Americas used to trade goods and enslaved people long ago. (Britannica Kids, 2025].
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