The Triangular Slave Trade

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The Triangular Slave Trade
By Anisha Chelsea
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The effects of slavery

• Millions of people went through torture of being
  enslaved for a long amount of time. The effect
  was heart-breaking and very emotional. The
  enslaved people that were carried across the
  water, only got washed once a week, and that too
  very disgustingly. The slave traders just got a
  bucket of salty and cold sea water and just
  chucked it at them.

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An image of enslaved people
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Conditions on the ship

• The conditions on the ship were very appalling
  for the enslaved people. The enslaved could not
  go to the toilet because there wasnt one on the
  ship, so they had to just do it where they were.
  The slave traders believed that enslaving people
  was just a fun game and did not care about the
  enslaved people and their feelings.

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The Trading Triangle

• The trading triangle consisted of three
  continents Africa, America and Europe. The
  slave traders took the enslaved people across the
  sea to America and then after they carried sugar,
  tobacco and cotton to Europe. Textiles
  manufactured goods to Africa. Also, as the slave
  traders went through America, they put black shoe
  polish on the enslaved peoples bruises because
  then, when they sold the enslaved people, they
  would get more money because they enslaved people
  looked like that they were in good position to
  work for their new slave traders.

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An image of the slave traders forcing the
enslaved to do hard work.
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John Newton A Slave Trader

• John Newton was born on July 24th in 1725. In
  1743, John Newtons father had planned for him to
  take up a position as a slave master at a sugar
  plantation in Jamaica. He then became a slave
  trader and then he was buying and selling slaves
  across the trading triangle. But after a few
  years of slave trading, he became very guilty and
  felt very sorry for all the enslaved people. He
  then wrote a hymn titled, Amazing Grace because
  he wanted to ask forgiveness from God.

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William Wilberforce An English Politician

• William Wilberforce was born on 24th August in
  1759. He was a member of parliament for Yorkshire
  and was a leading abolitionist. He was the one
  that abolished slave trading in 1807, as the
  Slave Trade Act.

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An image of where the enslaved had to stay
overnight
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TODAY

• Today we are very lucky because slavery was
  abolished a long time ago. If it wasnt for
  William Wilberforce then we would also have to go
  through the pain and suffering that the enslaved
  people went through.
• We must appreciate the fact that slave trading
  was abolished in 1807 and now we dont have to go
  through it!!

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BOB MARLEY REDEMPTION SONG

• Old pirates, yes, they rob me Sold I to the
  merchant ships, Minutes after they took IFrom
  the bottomless pit.But my hand was made
  strongBy the hand of the Almighty.We forward in
  this generationTriumphantly.Won't you help to
  singThis songs of freedom'Cause all I ever
  have Redemption songs Redemption songs.