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What had a devastating effect on the Native American population?
European diseases
What was the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure?
The Middle Passage
Art and Dance
In 1548, who reported about the destruction of the Native Americans of Hispaniola?
Fernández de Oviedo
Between the 1520s and 1860s about 12 million Africans were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves. More than 10 million of these captives survived the voyage and reached the Americas. The slave trade led to what?
African Diaspora
In North America the Native American population north of Mexico was about 10 million when columbus arrived. This number would drop to less than how many people?
Less than one million people
What was a mainstay of the colonial economic structure.
Plantation agriculture
How many people were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves?
About 12 million people
More than how many slaves went to Britain’s North American colonies that later became the United States?
600,000 slaves
Who suggested using enslaved Africans as workers?
Bartolomé de Las Casas
What is a place not fully under the slaveholders’ control?
Refuge
What did the law with African slaves do?
it considered enslaved Africans to be property.
In 1510 the Spanish government legalized the sale of slaves in its colonies. The first full cargo ship of Africans arrived in the Americas eight years later. Over the next century, more than a million enslaved Africans were brought to the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the New World. The Dutch and English also became active in this. what was this known as?
The Slave Trade
What is a common form of religious expression among slaves?
Spirituals
How many slaves worked in British and French colonies in the Caribbean and Latin America.
3 Million slaves