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Transatlantic Trade/Triangular Trade

Transatlantic Trade/Triangular Trade. More like a web, than a triangle More trade between West Indies and colonies than explained as a triangle. Sugar Cane. Imported from Asia to the New world Sugar cane plantations Needs a large labor force. Why the African?.

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Transatlantic Trade/Triangular Trade

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  1. Transatlantic Trade/Triangular Trade

  2. More like a web, than a triangle • More trade between West Indies and colonies than explained as a triangle

  3. Sugar Cane • Imported from Asia to the New world • Sugar cane plantations • Needs a large labor force

  4. Why the African? • Native American was the 1st slave in the new world. • He was biologically naïve. • Victim of disease, starvation, and cruel treatment through various atrocities.

  5. Why the African? • Bartolome de las Casa- fought against the cruelty toward the Native American. • Thought the African was a better choice because of immunity to disease, knowledge of farming and various skilled labor. • Later recanted this idea.

  6. Middle Passage • Dreaded passage across the Atlantic • Africans packed into ships • Many died

  7. Some captains tried to keep Africans healthy because they were an investment

  8. What are you • Prior to slave trade you where defined by • Religion • Homeland • Sex –Male or Female • (white and black were not an issue yet)

  9. When race became an issue • In beginning, a loophole for slave to become free was converting and being baptized. • To fix this loophole slavery became based on race thus creating black and white.

  10. Inferiority • European begin to believe the African is inferior to justify using them as forced labor. • To ease the guilty conscious they justify by giving the African Christianity. • By being “inferior” they could treat them subhuman.

  11. Matrilineal vs. Patrilineal • European society gives status to children based upon status of father. • The slave is given status of mother for several reasons • To create generations of slave labor at no cost. • Allow master options of not claiming their offspring

  12. Indentured Servant • Mostly European, sold themselves into a temporary slavery to repay the cost of immigration to the new world. • Problem the I.S. could blend in with other colonist thus could easily escape thus did not honor his agreement.

  13. Where they went • http://discoverer.prod.sirs.com/discoweb/disco/do/picture?picurn=urn%3Asirs%3AUS%3BIMAGE%3BGIF%3B0000094057

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