III Spain and Africa• A) The Canary

Islands are located off the coast of Africa. Owned by Spain.

• 1) Island had excellent conditions to grow Sugar Cane

Sugar Cane?

Why was sugar so profitable?

• 2) Spain establishes sugar cane plantations across the Canary Islands.

• 3) Spain acquires African slaves from nearby Ivory Coast

• 4) Spain expands their Sugar/ Slave Plantation economy to the newly discovered Caribbean Islands

• B) Spain established trading posts along Africa’s Ivory Coast.

• 1) Offer to exchange guns and alcohol in exchange for captured slaves.

• C) Spain exploits the competition between the local tribes.

• 1) Tribes victorious in war would often enslave the losers.

• 2) African tribes get caught in an arms race.

• a) A tribe in Africa need guns to fight off tribes trying to enslave them

• b) In order to get guns, the tribes had to trade slaves to the Spanish

• D) Between 1492 and 1770, more Africans than Europeans came to America

• 1) 10 million Africans were abducted during the slave trade years

• 2) Abducted- kidnapped

• E) The majority of the Africans went to Brazil and the Caribbean Islands to work the sugar plantations.

• 1) About 6% of the slaves will be sent to the 13 Colonies