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The Atlantic Slave Trade Chapter 13 Section 2 Trades, Colonies, Mercantilism
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| The Atlantic Slave Trade
Chapter 13 Section 2
Trades, Colonies, Mercantilism
The nations of Europe were creating trading empires
Mercantilism - the theory that the prosperity of a nation depended on a large supple of bullion, or gold and silver
The Slave Trade
The demand for enslaved Africans changed dramatically with the discovery of the Americas
The native population needed to work the plantations in the Americas had died off because of diseases brought from Europe
Growth of the Slave Trade
Triangular Trade –
Europeans ships carried European goods, guns, and cloth to Africa to trade for enslaved people
The enslaved were shipped to the Americas and sold
European merchants would buy tobacco, molasses, sugar, and raw cotton in the Americas and shipped them back to Europe
Many died on the journey to the Americas, known as the middle passage
Sources of Enslaved Africans
Europeans bought enslaved Africans from African merchants in exchange for gold, guns, and other European goods
Local rulers who traded in enslaved people viewed the slave trade as a source of income
Effects of Slave Trade
Led to the depopulation of some areas
Deprived many African communities of their strongest and youngest men and women
Led to increased warfare in Africa due to the need for constant supply of enslaved peoples
The use of enslaved Africans remained largely acceptable to European society.
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