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TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
BIBLIOGRAPHY Ellis, Elisabeth G., and Anthony Elser. Prentice Hall World History. Boston, MA: Pearson Education Inc., 2007. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. Dir. Katherine Stone. Youtube. 21 Apr. 2008. 6 May 2009 .
TRIANGULAR TRADE NETWORK The Atlantic Slave Trade was a triangular trading network across the Atlantic ocean, in which Europe, Africa and the Americas were all involved in.
THREE LEGS
THIRD LEG: THE AMERICAS TO EUROPE Merchant ships carried back on the final leg : cotton, sugar, molasses, salt fish, furs, and rum made from molasses. These items were traded in Europe for profit by European commodities brokers.
SECOND LEG/ MIDDLE PASSAGE: AFRICA TO THE AMERICAS The slaves were transported across the Atlantic ocean to many parts of of the Americas. Tragically many of these captured Africans were beaten or tortured to death by the sailors while others died of sickness at sea. The surviving enslaved Africans were exchanged in the Americas for goods such as molasses, sugar, and other products manufactured at plantations that were European owned.
FIRST LEG: EUROPE TO AFRICA European merchant ships carried goods such as money, guns, and cloth. These goods were traded in Africa by merchants in exchange for many slaves. Other Africans were captured buy the merchants and brought into slavery.
QUESTIONS 1. The motives for the Atlantic Trade Network were to obtain free labor to expand plantation growth in the Americas. 2. The conditions for the slaves were harsh, brutish and cruel. Extreme heat coupled with a lack of food and water led to numerous diseases and deaths. 3. The African slave's immediate reaction was fear, confinement, and uncertainty. Europe and the America's immediate reaction was control, power, and greed.
