Facts
- New World- Colonial America
- Old World- Most of Europe especially England
Slave Background
- Slavery had been going on for a very long time
- It can be dated back to the time period of Ancient Egypt
- One of the biggest roles slaves had in a civilization would have been in Rome
- They were very important in growing food in the latifundias
- Also in Colonial American it was not just the Africans that would used as slaves, Natives were also tried to 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
Triangular Trade
- It was a trading network that was established in the late 16th century to early 19th century
- It was a trade network that consisted of the New world, Old world and Africa
- Some of the best exports
- Africa- Slaves
- Old world- manufactured goods
- New world- cash crops
Middle Passage
- Term used to referr to the end of sending the slaves across the Atlantic to America
- The conditions were terrible
- Some slaves would often commit suicide by jumping off the ship
- if the slave would try to starve to death, they would have the family of the slave eat the heart of the slave that died
- Dead slaves would be thrown over board to help avoid disease even though there were many diseases already.
How they were captured
- Many of the slaves would sell out the other Africans because they were being bribed
- They would raid other villages and take them and sell them to the blacks
- Europeans would generally just raid the coast raids
- Once captured they would walk them to the coast
- They would restrain them to avoid the slaves from getting captured
- They would take slaves from different villages so that they couldn't communicate and rebel
Colombian Exchange
- Focuses more the trade network for the Old World to the new WOrld
- Named after Colombus
- Many different foods from each side were exchanged which benefited both sides
- Pretty positive experience besides the dieases
causes and effects
- Cause:The slavery is that Colonial America was expanding very quickly and the colonists didnt have the man power
- Effect: Africans villages would struggling because they were losing many of their hunters
- Diease
- Colonists became very lazy Economy boomed in the South
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