The Middle Passage - Mr. Tickler's...
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The Middle Passage
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The Middle Passage
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Atlantic Slave Trade• 1525-1866: 12.5 million Africans
shipped to the New World• Approximately 10.7 million survived• 388,000 taken to colonies in present-
day United States• Portuguese, British, French,
Spanish, and Dutch were main Atlantic slave traders
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Triangular Trade
Raw goods (sugar, tobacco, and cotton)
Textiles and manufactured
goods
Slaves
Central Historical QuestionHow did people experience the
Middle Passage?
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Document D: Diagram of Slave Ship