atlantic slaver trade
- many historians compare this event to the Holocaust
- started in themid 16gh centrey and contunued up until the 19th century
triangu;ar trade
- it was a trading network that was established in the late 16th century to early centry
- it was trade network that consisted of new world old world and africa
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some of the best exports
- aftrica- slaves
oldworld- manufactured goods
new world- cash crops
Middle passage
-term used to refer to the event setting of sending the slaves across the atlantic to colonial america
- the conditions were yerrible no bathrooms and close quartes
- some slaves often would even commit
Middle passage
- if a slave would starve to death, the captain of the ship would make friends of family members of the slave eat there liver and heart of dead
- around 15 to 20 of the slaves that were shipped over the atlantic died on there
how they were captured
- many of the slaves were actually sold into slavery y other africans
- generally the europeans exploreers would conduct the coast raids but if they went too much inland the europeans wanted nother to do with that.
slaves
- once captured they would walk to the coast and wait for ships this would sometimes take months for the euroean shipd to appear
- they would be restrained to avoid the slaces escaping which is very inhamane
- also the euroeans would take
columbian exchange
- focuses more the trade natwork for the old world to the new world'
-named after christopher columbus
-many different foods from each side were exchanged which benefitted both sides
causes and effects
- the biggest cause for slavery is that colonial american was expanding very quickly and the colonist did not have man power to keep up
- effects
- the african willages would struggling because were losing many poeple
- spreading of disease
- colonists become lazy
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