Slaves washed, covered w/ grease or tar to look healthy.
Branded w/ hot iron to identify them.
Auctions
Slaves sold at auctions
Buyers physically inspected slaves
Auctioneers had slaves demonstrate their physical abilities
Auctions
Auctions
“We didn’t spend many days in the merchant’s custody before we were sold. When the drum started to beat, buyers rushed at once into the yeard where slaves were confined and made a choice of which “property” they wanted to purchase. The noise and eagerness visible in the faces of the buyers was frightening to the terrified Africans. In this way, without a second thought, family and friends were separated, most of them never to see each other again. I remember in the boat in which I was brought over... there were several brothers who were sold to different buyers. It was very emotional to see and hear their cries as they were separated. Mothers torn from their children, men from their wives.”
Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano
Plantations
Most African slaves went to the Caribbean or South America.
Plantations produced crops like sugar, tobacco, indigo, and cotton.
Crops were exported for profit.
Between 1501 and the 1860s, at least twelve million African men, women, and children were transported in the transatlantic slave trade. Among them were farmers, fishermen, cattle herders, craftspeople, scholars, slaves, musicians, as well as political and religious leaders and tribal kings and queens.
Between 1501 and the 1860s, at least twelve million African men, women, and children were transported in the transatlantic slave trade. Among them were farmers, fishermen, cattle herders, craftspeople, scholars, slaves, musicians, as well as political and religious leaders and tribal kings and queens.
Plantations: North America
North America living conditions were not good.
Plantation owners imported large numbers of female slaves and encouraged their slaves to form families and bear children
How did The Transatlantic Slave Trade increase cultural diffusion in Africa and the United States?
Amistad
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RETEACHING SECTION
Slave Trade - Definition
Collecting, transporting, & selling of human beings as slaves, in particular the former trade in African blacks as slaves by European countries & North America.
Picture/Diagram-Triangular Slave Trade
North America
South America
Africa
Europe
Impact on Africa
It deprived Africa of a huge part of their population.
It distorted African gender ratios because ~ 2/3 of slaves were male.
The introduction of firearms increased the level of violence.
Process: From Africa to Ending Country
How were they captured?
What was the middle passage on the ships like?
What happened when they arrived off the ships?
What happened at the plantations?
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