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Chapter 4 Section 3
Slavery in the Colonies
Bellwork-Hide in the photograph: Describe what you can see, smell, feel, and touch, and hear from your hiding place.
EQ: What was Triangular Trade and the Middle Passage?
TSWABT understand Triangular Trade HW: Brochure
Chapter 4 Section 3
Slavery in the Colonies
The students will be able to summarize triangular trade and slavery describing it's effect on the American colonies as well as resistance to slavery with 80% accuracy
Where does this fit into your unit learning goal scale?
Yes, Goal IHow do you reach mastery? Update TOC: Triangular Trade Cornell pg. .
Objectives
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1. Vocabulary to Know: • triangular trade – a three-way trade between
the New World, Europe and Africa
• racism – the belief that one race is superior or inferior to another
• slave codes – strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves to keep slaves from revolting.
• Middle Passage- brutal voyage between Africa and the new world aboard a slave ship
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2. How did slavery start in the colonies?
Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese settlers were the first to bring enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Slavery spread to the colonies, where it became a regular part of trade and provided cheap labor to Southern plantations.
Southern economy was dependent on slave labor
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The British, Dutch, and French entered the slave trade.
In time, English colonists— were shipping enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
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Slave traders set up posts along the African coast.
Africans who lived on the coast made raids into the interior, seeking captives to sell to the Europeans.
What was the slave trade?
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Once they arrived at the coasts, captives were traded for guns and other goods.
Then they were sent across the Atlantic Ocean on a brutal voyage known as the Middle Passage.
What was the middle passage?
Half of the captives died on forced marches to the coast, some of which were as long as 300 miles.
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To increase their profits, some slave-ship captains crammed the maximum number of captives on board.
15 to 20 percent of enslaved Africans died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage.
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Bellwork: Describe what this photo means to you. What emotions are present when you look at it?
EQ: What was the Middle Passage
TSWBAT evaluate the experience of AA HW: Brochure due TOMORROW (MUST BE TURNED IN WITH RUBRIC AND RESEARCH ORGANIZER)
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What happened in America?
In the Americas, healthy enslaved Africans were auctioned off, and families often were separated.
About 500,000 enslaved Africans ended up in British North America.
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What was Triangular Trade?
By about 1700, slave traders in the British colonies had developed a regular routine, known as the triangular trade.
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Triangular Trade
First Leg • Sugar, tobacco, and cotton to Europe
Second Leg
• Textiles, rum, and manufactured good to Europe
Third Leg
• Slaves to the Americans (Middle Passage)
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How did slavery grow?
The first enslaved Africans in the colonies may have been treated as servants, and some eventually were freed.
But as the need for cheap labor grew, colonies made slavery permanent.
Some colonies tried to ban slavery, but it eventually became legal in all the colonies.
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Why did slavery take root in the colonies?
• The plantation system led the southern economy to depend on slavery.
• Planters preferred slaves because while indentured servants were freed after their terms were over, slaves were slaves for life.
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Not every African in America was a slave, but slavery came to be restricted to people of African descent, and slavery was thus linked to racism.
Most English colonists thought they were superior to Africans.
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There were so many slaves in the colonies that whites began to worry about slave revolts.
The first serious slave revolt took place in 1663 in Gloucester, Virginia, and others soon followed.
ColonistsEnslaved Africans
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What were slave codes?
Colonial authorities wrote slave codes that said enslaved people could not:
• meet in large numbers or own weapons.
• leave a plantation without permission.
• learn to read and write.
Slave codes were written in fear of slave uprisings
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TICKET-OUTREFLECTIO SUMMARY: EVALUATE AND DESCRIBE THE EXPERIENCE OF THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
Complete your progress chart for h AND I!
