The Atlantic Slave Trade
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1. State two other names that the Atlantic Trade was referred to as. __________________________ _________________________
2. Triangular Trade: Trade routes between ___________, _______________, and the _______________ during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
3. Portgual:
A. 1424-1434: Prince _______________________ paid for voyages along the West Coast of Africa in search of fishing banks.
B. 1441, ____________________ captured 10 Africans near Cape Bojador.
C. In 1481, Portugal built the 1st European fort called ___________________________.
4. Spain:
They needed slaves to work on their ____________________ America & in the Caribbean. In the 16th century, ______________ issued the 1st _______________, a license to import slaves into Spanish Colonies. This gave Spain a _______________ on the slave trade.
5. England:
A. In 1662, _____________________________ took 3 ships to Sierra Leone & captured 300 slaves.
B. Hawkins later convinced Queen _____________________I to participate in the slave trade.
C. They began to bring slaves to the Caribbean. They formed the_____________________________________. This allowed English colonies in America to easily buy slaves from English traders.
D. At the beginning only a few slaves came to English colonies.
But when the big _________________, ________________________ and ____________ plantations grew in the colonies in the south the slave trade increased. At the conclusion of the War of Spanish Succession, the Treaty of __________________ gave to Great Britain a thirty-year asiento, or contract, to supply an unlimited number of slaves to the Spanish colonies, and 500 tons of goods per year.
This gave England the _______________________on the slave trade.
Stage One:
A. Ships left Europe loaded with goods, such as ______________________________________________________________.
B. Slaves were obtained by:
______________________________ ____________________________
______________________________ _____________________________
______________________________ _____________________________
What is another name for the slave-stick? _________________
Why were African chiefs unsuccessful in resisting?
Stage Two:
What was stage two called? _______________________________
Cargo = ___________________
Length it took? ____________________
Some Africans tried to jump ship, refused to eat and rebelled.
Loss of a slave’s life was a loss of ____________ for the sailors.
E. _____________________ meant that the captains would take on board fewer slaves in hope to reduce sickness and death.
F. ______________________ meant that the captains would carry as many slaves as their ship could hold, as they believed that many blacks would die on the voyage anyway
Stage Three:
Africans would be sold at _______________ in the Americas.
The ships’ captains would use the $ from their sale to buy a 3rd cargo of raw materials: __________________________________.
They sold this for a further large ________________ in Europe.
In Europe, they would convert the raw materials into _____________________________.
Auctions:
_________________________:
- They put tar on the slaves to hide any sores and cuts
- Slaves were inspected
- An auction to took place and the higher bidder would get to purchase the slave.
- Bids were taken as long as an inch of a candle burned.
- Slaves were branded
- Families were separated
- They were given a ___________________ name.
B. ___________________________:
Similar to public auctions
They were indoors and red markers would be placed on the door to indicate an auction.
C.______________________________:
They would take place on the docks or on the deck of the ship
There would be a fixed price per head
Slave owners would go in and grab who they wanted to purchase.
Slavery Abolished in the British Empire:
________ = The slave trade was abolished in the British Empire, which meant that no slaves would be carried from Africa in British ships.
1834 = ____________________ Act stated that slaves under 6 years old were freed; field hands over 6 had to work for their owners for 6 more years; house slaves had to work for 10 more years.
Britain gave ________ million pounds in compensation to former slave owners and slaves received nothing.
1838 all slaves were given complete ______________________
Slavery in the USA was not abolished until ________________.
Draw a Diagram of the Triangular Trade:
Include: The 3 continents & the cargo that was transported between the 3 areas.
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