The new world was called Colonial America
Old world Most of Europe especially England
Slaves Background
Slaves had been going on for a very long time
It can be dated back to teh time period of Ancient Egypt
Atlantic Slave trade
Many compaired to the Holocaust
Roughly 12 million slaves were shiped and sold
Triangular trade
Trade network set up in the 16th to 19th century
Best exports were slaves
Manufactured goods
Cash crops like tobacco
Middle passage
Term used for sending slaves across the atlantic
sent as many as they could on the ships to make money
15 to twenty percent died
They threw the dead overboard.
Villages would raid other villages and give slaves to the whites
In return for slaves they gave them guns and alcohol
Once captured they would walk to coast and wait for ships
A variety of slaves would be captured so they had differnent languages
It was hard to communicate or organize rebellion
Columbian exchange
Named after christopher columbus
Many foods were exchanged from each side
Pretty possitive experience altho there was a little spread of dissease
Biggest cause for slavery is that colonial America was expanding quickly and the colonist did not have man power to keep up
The economy boomed with the slaves
The south had a better economy until the civil war when north was industrialized
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