The Beginnings of the Slave Trade
What crop was in high demand in Europe?
Sugar
What did women typically work as?
Domestic servants
Why is it named the Triangular Slave Trade?
Because it was in the shade of a triangle
What would many slaves be packed into and taken to other places or countries?
ships
Cruel, lacking mercy
Inhumane
As sugar plantations grew larger, the demand for what had to grow larger?
Workers
What did the Europeans bring to the islands that killed off some of the working Indigenous people?
Diseases and war
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Enslaved people were brought and sold like commodities and shipped across the Atlantic as part of the triangular trade?
How was the trips across the Atlantic Ocean for the enslaved Africans?
It was a terrible, dehumanizing experience
Goods transported by ship, plane, or truck
Cargo
What area did Spain colonize?
The Canary Islands
What in the Caribbean Islands made it well suited for growing crops?
Land and climate
The triangular slave trave included which countries?
Europe to Africa
Africa to Americas
Americas to Europe
How long would the journey's passing through the Atlantic Ocean would take?
two to four months
To gain possession of
Procure
What did Prince Henry play a large role in during these times?
He is known to have played a large role in developing the Atlantic Slave Trade
The islands of Caribbean were NOT rich in what?
mineral wealth
Besides slaves, what did people trade throughout the triangle slave trade?
timber, tobacco, grain, sugar, rice, iron, guns, gunpowder, knives, cloth, molasses, grain, meat, fish, rum, tools, clothing and beads
How did the Africans have to travel in the ship?
laying down or closely sitting together (crammed, overcrowded, shackled together)
areas around the equator that remain warm all year
topical latitude
European involvement in African slave trade begin to grow after the year of...?
1415 CE
What Spanish brought Hispaniola experts in to help set up what?
Sugar plantations
who was Prince Henry?
15th-century Portuguese prince and patron of exploration who masterminded early Atlantic voyages and West African exploration
Approximately how long did the Atlantic slave trade last?
Nearly 300 years
Private ownership of people
Chattel slavery