Random Facts: New World is Colonial America Old World is most of Europe especially England
Slave Background: It has been going on for a very long time. It can be dated back to the time period of Amcient Egypt. One of the biggest roles that slavery has in civilization would have been in Rome. They were very important in growing foods in the latifundias- large crop estates. Also in Colonial AMerica it was not just the Africans that would used as slaves, Natives were also tried but the colonists had better luck with the Africans.
Atlantic Slave Trade: Many historians compare this event to the Holocaust. Start in the mid 16th century and continued up until the 19th century. Current estimate of the number of slaves that were actually shipped across the Atlantic is roughly 12 million even tho historians think that more were purchased.
Trianglular Trade- it was a trading networ that was established in the late 16th century to early 19th century. It was trade network that consisted of the new world (including west indies) old world and africa.
Some of the best exports: Africa-slaves Old World- Manufactured goods New World-cash crops(tobacco)
Middle Passage- Terms used to refer to the event/setting of sending the slaves across the Atlantic to Colonial America. The conditions were terrible ex. no bathrooms and close quarters. Some slaves often would even commit suicide by either not eating or jumping off the ship and generally would drown. If a slave would starve to death, the captain would make friends or family members of the slave eat their liver and heart of the dead slave. Around 15 to 20% of the slaves that were shipped over the Atlantic died on the journey there. Dead slaves would be thrown over board to help avoid disease even tho there were many diseases already being spread on the ships.
How slaves were captured: many of the slaves were actually sold into slavey by other africans. the reason for this is die to the fact that european exploreers would bribe the Africans with manufactured goods like alcohol and guns. Generally the Europeans explorers would conduct the coast raids, but if they went too much inland the europeans wanted nothing to do with that. Once captured they would wwalk to the coast and wait for ships. This would sometimes take months for the european ships to appear. They would be restrained to avoid the slaves escaping which is very inhumane. Also the europeans would take variety of slaves from different villages. the reason for this is that africa has many different languages so it was impossible for osme of them to communicate.
Colombian Exchange: foccusses more the trade network for the old world to new world. Named after chris colombus. many different foods from each side were exchanged which benefitted noth sides. for the most part it was a pretty positive expirience except for the disease that it brought both sides.
Cause and effects: the biggest CAUSE: for slavery is that colonial america was expanding very quickly and the colonists did not have the man power to keep up. EFFECT: that african villages would struggling cuz they were losing many of their hunters and gatherers. Spread disease. Racial superiority. Colonists became lazy. Economy boomed in south.
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