Slavery

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Slavery

• Everyone was involved

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The Slave Trade
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Who

• French
• English
• Portuguese
• Dutch
• Spanish
• Arabs
• Various African Nations

• In the 1400s the Portuguese started to become
  more ambitious and decided not just to capture
  slaves but to sell them to those who could afford
  them. They had successfully worked around the
  Trans-Saharan slave trade having navigated the
  west coast of African.

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Atlantic Slave Trade

• The Atrocities Begin
• 1550 - 1850

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How many

• A conservative estimate of 15,000,000 landed.
  However, some estimates are as high as 50,000,000
  and some even higher.
• The mortality rate varied from voyage to voyage
  and year to year. The rates ranged from 5 to 34.

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Slave Acquisition

• The slaves were captured at first later on
  Africans would sell other Africans to the
  Europeans.

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Africa to the Americas
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The Transportation

• The difference is that instead of coming up the
  coast of Africa to Europe ships now made voyages
  to the New World which were much more dangerous
  and costly. The name Transatlantic Slave trade
  means that slaves were transported across the
  Atlantic.

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Slave Ship

• Slaves were transported from Africa to Europe at
  first. When America was "encountered" it
  quite naturally became the next place where
  slavery would flourish.

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Packed In Human Cargo
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Life on the Ship

• Life below deck was harrowing, uncertain and
  bleak.

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Trade Routes
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Trading was profitable
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IndenturedServitude

• Before slavery was fully established in the
  colonies blacks and whites were indentured
  servants.

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Sold Like Cattle

• Slaves were auctioned off to the highest bidder.
  The slaves in the best physical condition fared
  a handsome price.

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Owned as Property

• Slaves were often branded to denote property.

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A Change

• This picture designed by Josiah Wedgwood (c.
  1790) was the symbol of the abolitionists.