Slave trade – extra notes for triangle trade diagram (in margins)

• Right side of paper – some Africans cooperated in helping the Europeans capture slaves…they did this to acquire guns or to avoid capture themselves

• Bottom of paper – journey of captured slaves across the Atlantic was known as the middle passage

Slave trade – extra notes for triangle trade diagram (in margins)

• Top of paper – – plantations were large farms with many slaves– tobacco and cotton plantations were most

common use of slave labor in the U.S. (but sugar was the most important crop of the slave trade for the Americas overall)

• Who had control of the trade?

The Middle Passage