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Atlantic Slave Trade1450-1750 CE
1450-1
750:
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rink?
Sugar in Polynesia
Arab trade in Polynesia
Arabs discover
distillation & cultivate
sugar
Europeans learn of
distillation & use sugar grown by
Arabs
Europeans grow sugar in Americas & drink spirits on voyage
there
Slave trade brings slaves
by using spirits to grow sugar and to make more
spirits
Sugar
Rum Slaves
FAC
TS
Between 1500-1866, an
estimated:• 12.5 million people were
taken from Africa• Africa had ~18% of world
population in 1600• only 6% in 1900• 1.8 million died in the
Middle Passage (14.4%)
• 10.7 million worked as
slaves in the Americas
BEFO
RE 1
500
• Slavery’s origins?• Unit 2 Slavery?
BEFO
RE 1
500
• Unit 3 Slavery?• Indian Ocean/Trans-Saharan
Trade; Southern Russia• African societies & Slavery•Vulnerability + assimilation•Islamic world positions
•Inheriting slave status?•Gender & slavery
The slave trade in practice
Ayuba Suleiman Diallo(aka Job ben Solomon)
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Kara Walker“A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby”
DB
Q P
ract
ice • 10 minute reading
period• 5 minute grouping• 5 minute thesis writing• Peer edit