slave trade

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Alantic slave trade

from 1500s to 1800s millions of africans were:

  • captured
  • shipped across atlantic 
  • sold as slaves in america 
  • planters were needed for sugar and tabacco plantations
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what did slaves consist off

  • farmers
  • merchnats
  • priests
  • soldiers
  • fathers 
  • mothers
  • son
  • daughters
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what caused beginning of slave trade

  • natives started to die out 
  • needed more people to work on land
  • leaded to buying slaves
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effect of slave trade on africa

  • divided africans 
  • captured strongest young future leaders 
  • decline of some african states dissappearing people
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economies during slave trade in Africa

  • forced labour amoung slaves to enrich other parts of world
  • slaves laboured built economies for many african colonies
  • their info. of argriculture contributed to growth of rice industry in English colonies
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spread of culture during Atlantic slave trade

  • Africans spread throughout Americas-African Diapore

 

  • everntually led to spread of culture-art, music, religion-throughout Western World
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native Americans in slave trade

  • planters first used them-European diseaes killed millions

 

  • 1600s-indentured servents

 

  • it was expensive to support workers
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what did Europeans rely on

  • rulers and traders to seize captives 

 

  • bring them to the coastal posts of fortresses
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triangular trade

  • 3 way system durning 1600-1800s
  • africa sent slaves to america
  • america sent raw materials to europe
  • europe sent guns and rum to Africa
  • not all slaves from america sailed this route
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middle passage

Route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade

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living conditions in middle passage

  • captive americans chained together
  • forced into dark
  • cramped quarters below ships deck 
  • could not sit or stand 
  • journey lasting three to six weeks
  • 10/20 percent dead 
  • low on food and water
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slave trade abolishment

  • 1807 Parliament voted to end trading in slaves in British ships and with British merchants.
  • britain took strict measures making slavery stop
  • ships caught were inpounded
  • slaver captians paid 100 for every slave onbaord 
  • slavery abolished in 1834
  • slaves got apprentaships however got abloished in 1838
  • from this time on wards there was no more slavery in british empire
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