Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease.
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Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease.
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Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease. Native American Indians also died from the harsh working conditions imposed on them by the Europeans. The deaths of so many Native American Indians created the need for a work force. Europeans decided to use Africans - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Many Native American Indians died from smallpox disease.
Native AmericanIndians
alsodied fromthe harshworking
conditionsimposed on
them bythe
Europeans.
The deathsof so many
Native AmericanIndians created
the need fora work force.
Europeans decided to use Africans to replace a dying American
Indian population.
Europeansremoved
millions ofAfricansbetween the 1500sand the1800s.
Africans werestripped of
their language,culture, and
freedom. Theywere forced tolabor under
brutal conditionsin plantations
in the Americas.
Enslaved Africans were usually capturedby warring ethnic groups or tribes and
traded to European and American slave traders.
Slaves were traded in exchange forguns and other goods.
The “Middle Passage” was the slave’s voyage across the
Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Many slavesdied during theMiddle Passagebecause of the
terribleconditions
on the ships. Slaveswere crowded
together in small, unsanitary
spaces.
Once in the Americas, African slavesencountered brutality and cruelty on
plantations in the Americas.
Life expectancy on sugar plantationswas low due to the brutal working
conditions.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade was a
tragic period in world history.
The Transatlantic Slave Trade
Causes
MiddlePassage
Effects
