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    The document discusses the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1870. It began as Europeans established sugar plantations and tobacco farms in the Americas and needed a large workforce. They initially planned to use Native Americans but then turned to importing slaves from Africa. Over 12 million Africans were captured and sold as slaves, with over 40% going to Brazil to work on sugar plantations. The voyage, known as the Middle Passage, had high mortality rates as slaves endured disease, abuse and cramped conditions on ships. The slave trade established a triangular route between Europe, Africa and the Americas for trading goods and slaves.

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    The document discusses the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1870. It began as Europeans established sugar plantations and tobacco farms in the Americas and needed a large workforce. They initially planned to use Native Americans but then turned to importing slaves from Africa. Over 12 million Africans were captured and sold as slaves, with over 40% going to Brazil to work on sugar plantations. The voyage, known as the Middle Passage, had high mortality rates as slaves endured disease, abuse and cramped conditions on ships. The slave trade established a triangular route between Europe, Africa and the Americas for trading goods and slaves.

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    The document discusses the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1870. It began as Europeans established sugar plantations and tobacco farms in the Americas and needed a large workforce. They initially planned to use Native Americans but then turned to importing slaves from Africa. Over 12 million Africans were captured and sold as slaves, with over 40% going to Brazil to work on sugar plantations. The voyage, known as the Middle Passage, had high mortality rates as slaves endured disease, abuse and cramped conditions on ships. The slave trade established a triangular route between Europe, Africa and the Americas for trading goods and slaves.

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    Atlantic Slave Trade

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    The document discusses the Atlantic slave trade between Africa and the Americas from 1500 to 1870. It began as Europeans established sugar plantations and tobacco farms in the Americas and needed a large workforce. They initially planned to use Native Americans but then turned to importing slaves from Africa. Over 12 million Africans were captured and sold as slaves, with over 40% going to Brazil to work on sugar plantations. The voyage, known as the Middle Passage, had high mortality rates as slaves endured disease, abuse and cramped conditions on ships. The slave trade established a triangular route between Europe, Africa and the Americas for trading goods and slaves.

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    McCaskill
    THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
    SETTING THE STAGE
    Sugar plantations and tobacco farms required a large
    supply of workers to make them profitable for their
    owners.
    European owners had planned to use Native Americans as
    a source of cheap labor.
    Therefore, the Europeans in Brazil, the Caribbean, and the
    southern colonies of North America soon turned to Africa
    for workers.
    This demand for cheap labor resulted in the brutalities of
    the slave trade.
    THE CAUSE OF SLAVERY
    Beginning around 1500, Europeans needed
    workers so they began using slaves on plantations
    and farms.
    Slavery had existed in Africa for centuries.
    In most regions it was a relatively minor
    institution.
    In most African and Muslim societies, slaves had
    some legal rights and an opportunity for social
    mobility.
    THE DEMAND FOR AFRICANS
    After the colonization of the Americas, millions of
    natives died due to disease.
    As a result, Europeans began trading for African
    slaves to do work.
    THE DEMAND FOR AFRICANS CONT.
    The use of African slaves were perfect for several
    reasons:
    Many Africans had been exposed to European diseases
    and had built up some immunity.
    Many Africans had experience in farming and could be
    taught plantation work.
    Africans were less likely to escape because they did
    not know their way around the new land.
    Their skin color made it easier to catch them if they
    escaped and tried to live amongst others.
    ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE
    Buying and selling Africans for work in the Americas became a
    huge business known as the Atlantic Slave Trade.
    By the time the Atlantic slave trade ended around the year 1870,
    Europeans imported about 12 million Africans to the Americas.
    During the 1600s, Brazil dominated the European sugar market.
    As the colonys sugar industry grew, so too did European
    colonists demand for cheap labor.
    More than 40 percent of all Africans brought to the Americas went
    to Brazil.
    THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
    After being captured, Africans were shipped to be a part of a trade
    network.
    Along the way, millions of Africans died from untreated diseases,
    physical abuse, and suicide.
    The voyage that brought Africans to North/South America was known as
    the middle passage.
    Sickening cruelty characterized this journey.
    European traders packed Africans into the dark holds of large ships.
    In the end, roughly 20%-30% of the people on the ships never made it to
    the Americas.
    THE TRIANGULAR TRADE
    Africans transported to the Americas were part of a trading
    network, the triangular trade.
    Africans delivered other Africans to the Europeans in exchange
    for gold, guns, rum, and other goods.
    There, traders exchanged these goods for captured Africans.
    The Africans were then transported across the Atlantic and sold
    in the West Indies.
    Merchants bought sugar, coffee, and tobacco in the West Indies
    and sailed to Europe with these products.
    Upon arriving in the Americas, Africans usually were
    auctioned off to the highest bidder.

    SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS
    Slaves lived a very hard life.
    They worked long days and suffered many
    beatings.
    Slavery was a lifelong condition, as well as a
    hereditary one.
    CONSEQUENCES OF THE SLAVE TRADE
    In Africa, cultures lost generations of their fittest
    members.
    Countless African families were torn apart.
    Many of them were never reunited.
    The slave trade devastated African societies by
    introducing guns to the continent.
    SLAVERY TODAY
    Today there are more than 27 million
    people in slavery.
    We have more slaves in our world today
    than in any other time period in history.
    It is illegal in most of the world.
    However, slavery in our world today is
    not seen by most people.
    HOW TO STOP IT
    Research organizations such as
    Not For Sale
    End Child Trafficking
    Polaris Project
    End Slavery Now
    NC-Stop

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