What i learned in caribbean civ
- 6. THE MAIN IDEA • To Meet their growing labor needs, Europeans enslaved millions of Africans in forced labor in the Americas.
- 7. TERMS AND NAMES • Atlantic Slave Trade • Triangular trade • Middle Passage
- 8. SETTING THE STAGE • Sugar plantations and tobacco farms required a large supply of workers to make them profitable for their owners. Since most of the Native Americans that were used for labor had died, they turned to Africa for a new source of labor.
- 10. THE DESIRE FOR AFRICANS • The Portuguese were the first Europeans to Explore Africa. • They were more interested in trading for gold than for slaves. • The colonization of the Americas changed the focus of trade.
- 11. THE DESIRE FOR AFRICANS • There were several advantages in using Africans: • They had been exposed to European diseases • They had experience in farming • They had little knowledge of the land and there were no familiar tribes
- 12. THE DESIRE FOR AFRICANS • This trade for slaves became the Atlantic Slave Trade • Between 1500 and 1600, about 300,000 slaves were taken to the Americas. • During the next 100 years, the number jumped to 1.5 million, and by 1870 the number was about 9.5 million.
- 13. SPAIN AND PORTUGAL LEAD THE WAY During the 1600’s, Brazil dominated the sugar market – and as it grew, so did the need for slaves. • During the late 17th century, nearly 40% of the slaves from Africa were taken to Brazil. • Brazil, by the end of the slave trade, had 10 times the amount of slaves than in North America.
- 14. SLAVERY SPREADS • England then dominated the slave trade from the 1690 until 1807. • By 1830, there were nearly 2 million African slaves in North America. • African merchants, with the help of local rulers, captured fellow Africans to be enslaved. • They delivered them to the Europeans in exchange for gold, guns and other goods.
- 18. FORCED JOURNEY • The voyage across the Atlantic was dehumanizing, and deadly • Nearly 1/3 died between capture and sailing • Another 1/3 died in the crossing
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