Ch 20-3
The Atlantic Slave Trade
20.3-The Atlantic Slave Trade.pdfGroup Discussions
What were some of the ways in which the Atlantic slave trade affected Africans and American societies in the 1400s to the 1800s?
Comparing and Contrasting: How did slavery in the Americas differ from slavery in most African and Muslim societies? Think about the duties of enslaved persons, and the way they were treated, and their future prospects.
Standards:
I-C.2 Analyze and evaluate the actions of competing European nations for colonies around the world and the impact on indigenous populations.
Objective:
Identify the causes of African Slavery.
Trace the spread of slavery throughout the Americas.
Explain the triangular trade.
Describe the life of enslaved Africans in the colonies.
Identify the consequences of the Atlantic slave trade.
WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading
EQ: What were some of the ways in which the Atlantic slave trade affected African and American societies from the 1400s to the 1800s?
The causes of African Slavery
Slavery in Africa
The demand for Africans
Spain and Portugal lead the way
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Slavery Spreads throughout Americas
England dominates the Slave Trade
African Cooperation and Resistance
Slavery
A forced Journey
The triangular trade
The Middle passage
The Atlantic Slave Trade
Life Aboard a Slave Ship | History
Amisad Middle Passage
Roots: The middle passage
Below decks on an illegal slave ship seized by a British antislavery patrol in 1846.
Slavery in the Americas
A harsh life
Resistance and Rebellion
Roots: Families in slavery
The Slave Auction
Forms of Rebellion
The system of American Slavery
Cultural Connections
Slaves were vulnerable to cruel treatment that often provoked them to runaway from their plantations or even mount revolts. A French visitor to Brazil in the early nineteenth century depicted a Portuguese overseer administering a brutal whipping to a bound slave on a plantation near Rio de Janeiro.
Consequences of the Slave trade
What effects did the slave trade have on Africa?
Vocabulary:
Atlantic slave trade
Buying and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
Triangular trade
Europeans trade between the Americas, Africa, and Europe involving slaves and other goods
Middle passage
Voyage that brought captured Africans to the West Indies and the Americas
