TransAtlantic Slave Trade

Create a chart like the one below to take notes on some of the important issues concerning the emergence of slavery

Issue Notes

Slave labor

Transatlantic Trade/ Middle Passage

racism

Slavery-process of holding a person in bondage for labor

Enslaved Africans –immune to diseases, no family to help them escape in America, permanent source of cheap labor (children become slaves, many worked on farms in Africa.

Voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas, middle leg of triangular trade between Europe, Africa & Americas, 12 million Africans traveled on middle passage, 2 million died on the trip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo79PHVI-ck&feature=related Middle Passage

Triangular Trade

Slave Captives

SLAVE CAPTIVES

• Holding Cell in Africa

Door of No Return

Shackles for Arms and Legs

Shackles

• Neck Harness

Slaves Packed on Ship

Men & Boys Starving

Issue Notes

Slave labor

Transatlantic Trade/ Middle passage

racism

Slavery-passage of holding a person in bondage for labor

Enslaved Africans –immune to diseases, no family to help them escape in America, permanent source of cheap labor (children become slaves, many worked on farms in Africa.

Voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas, middle leg of triangular trade between Europe, Africa & Americas, 12 million Africans traveled on middle passage, 2 million died on the trip

Slavery led to the belief that some people are inferior because of their race.

What words come to mind?

Imagining the Horrors• African Slave Trade- What words come to mind?

Write down as many as you can. (1:29 secs)• On the Middle Passage- What are you feeling? Pain?

Anger? Sadness? Etc. (3:34 secs)• White Americas’ Fear- What pictures come to mind?

Draw as many as possible. (5:41 secs)• History of Black Slavery- What questions or thoughts

do you have now? (4:30 secs)– Stop @ 1:20 1:28– Stop @ 3:00 3:10