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Transatlantic Slave Trade
World History
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Ancient World Civilizations
Assyria
Babylonia
China
Egypt
India
Persia
Mesopotamia
Slavery was a universal institution in the ancient world but it was a dominant labor force only in a small number of societies.
First true slave society - Ancient Greece (6th to 4th Century)
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Old World vs. New World
Slavery
Classical world and medieval slavery was not based on racial distinctions.
Ancient world did not necessarily view slavery as a permanent condition.
Slaves did not necessarily hold the loest status in early civilizations.
Slaves in the old world often were symbols of prestige, luxury and power (true even in the ne world prior to European Colonization).
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How was slavery justified?
Early civilizations - accident or bad luck.
Aristotle - notion of the “natural slave”
Christian world - „Curse of Ham”
18th Century European - pseudo-scientific
racism.
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Why was Africa vulnerable to the
Slave Trade?
Political Fragmentation
Sailing Routes
Availability of People (high birth rate)
Civilizations and Skills (metalworking, farming, herding)
No diplomatic repercussions.
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Why not others?
Disease
Knowledge of terrain
Different Agricultural Skills
Supply deficit
Nation American women worked - not men!
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Countries Participating
Britain
Denmark
France
Holland
Portugal
Spain
Norway
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Why did European powers
eventually turn to African labor?
Labor supply was insufficient. Epidemics reduced the native population by 50% - 90%.
Evidence of deeply help racist sentiment. Racism was a consequence of racial slavery as well as a cause.
In English colonies the supply of servants decreased.
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The Atlantic Slave Trade
Where to?
5%
60%
35%
65%
30%
5%
Where from?
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Geography of Slavery
Enslaved Africans mostly came from the area stretching from the Senegal River in Africa to Angola.
Europeans divided the area into five regions:
Upper Guinea Coast
Ivory Coast
Lower Guinea Coast
Gabon
Angola
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Regional Divisions in Africa
Upper Guinea Coast (bound by the Senegal and Gambia Rivers)
Ivory Coast (Central Liberia)
Lower Guinea Coast (Divided into the Gold Coast on the west, the Slave Coast and Benin)
Gabon
Angola
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Comparison of Slavery in the
Americas
North America Latin America
No Legal Protection
Cruel Punishments
Slaves were sold apart
“Better” diet, housing, medical care Had to produce their own food, higher
death rates, low proportion of women.
Half of all slaves worked on plantations
with 20 or fewer slaves.
Up to 500 slaves on a plantation.
Slave owners live on plantation Absentee ownership common.
Two-category system of racial
categorization
Wide range of racial gradations
(Spanish/.Portuuese
Slavery depended on the loyalty of non
slaveholding whiles. 3/4 owned no
slaves
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How did slavery differ from
indentured servitude?
Indentured Servitude Slavery
Contracted Time Period For life/freedom was not
contractual.
Could be bought, sold, or
leased.
Could be punished by
whipping.
Were allowed to own
property.
Not property owners.
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Why Africa?
Sailing Routes
Lack of Familiarity with
the Americas
Availability of People
Civilizations and Skills
Metal Working
Farming
Hearding
No diplomatic
repercussions
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Number of people enslaved
•30 million
taken from their
homes •10 million die during capture phase
•10 million die during middle passage
•10 million survive to make it over the ocean
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Two main patterns of Triangular
Trade
Rum from New
England to West
Africa
Slaves to sugar islands
Molasses home to the
New England
distilleries
Manufactured goods
from England to
Africa
Goods exchanged for
slaves taken to West
Indies. Profits used to
purchase sugar (and
other goods) for
England.
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Middle Passage Origins of the Infamous Middle Passage
The middle leg of a three part voyage.
Began and ended in Europe.
Carried cargo of iron, cloth, brandy, firearms, gunpowder
Lnded on Africa‟s Slave Coast and exchanged cargo for Africans
Set sail for the Americas, where slaves were exchanged for sugar, tobacco, mlasses.
Final brought the ship back to Europe.
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Middle Passage 1600 - 1850‟s
The Capture
Approx. 60 forts build along the west coast of Africa.
Walked in slave caravans to the forts some 1000 miles away.
Selected by the Europeans and branded.
One half survived the death march.
Place in underground dungeons until they were boarded on ships.
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Middle Passage Statistics
10-16 million Africans forcibly transported across the
Atlantic from 1500-1900.
2 million died during the Middle Passage (10-15%)
Another 15-30% dies during the march to the coast.
For every 100 slaves that reached the New World, another
40 died in Africa or during the Middle Passage.
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Middle Passage
Conditions on Board the Ship
Slaves chained together and crammed into
spaces sometimes less than five feet high.
Slavers packed three of four hundred
Africans into the ship cargo holds.
Little ventilation, human waste, horrific
odors. Unclean.
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British Slave Ship
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Middle Passage
Tight packing - belly to back, chained in twos, wrist to ankle (660+), naked.
Loose packing - shoulder to shoulder chained wrist to wrist or ankle to ankle.
Men and woman separated (men placed towards bow, women toward stern).
Fed once of twice a day and brought on deck for limited times.
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Middle Passage
Journey lasted 6-8 weeks.
Due to high mortality rate, cargo was insured (reimbursed for drowning accidents but not for deaths from disease of sickness)
Common to dump your cargo for sickness or food shortages.
Slave mutinies on board ships were common (1 out of every 10 voyages across the Atlantic experience a revolt).
Covert resistance (attempted suicide, jumped overboard, refusal to eat).
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Destination of Captives
Caribbean 40%
Brazil 40%
Latin America 10%
British North America 10%
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Slave Exports and Profits
Early 18th Century - 36,000 per year
During 1780‟s - 80,000 per year
Between 1740-1810 - 60,000 captives/year on average.
17th Century - slave sold in the Americas for about $150\
Slave trade illegal in Britain in 1807, US 1808, France 1831, Spain 1834.
Once declared illegal prices went much higher. 1850s prime field hand $1200 - $1500 (about $18,00 in 1997 dollars).
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Slave Resistance:
Passive and Active Resistance
Breaking tools
Faking illness
Staging slowdowns
Committing acts of
arson and sabotage
Running Away
Underground Railroad
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Slave Revolts
Late 18th Century slave revolts erupted in Guadeloupe, Grenada, Jamaica, Surinam, Haiti, Venezuela, Winward Islands
Within the United States slave revolts were common as well. Richmond, Virginia, Louisiana, Charleston, South Carolina.
Denmark Vesey
The Amistad
Nat Turner
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Legacy of Slavery
Agriculture
Rice
Sweet Potatoes
Herding
Basketry
Working Style
(cooperative labor)
Planting (heel to toe)
Food
Spices (red pepper,
sesame, cajun)
Okra, black eyed peas
Rice
Dishes
Gumbo, jambalaya
Ash and hot cakes
Sweet potato pie
Music
Banjo
Drum
Blues/Jazz
Call and response
Spirituals
Religion
Call and response patterns
Emotional services
Multiple spirits and souls
Voodoo
Tales and Words
Trickster takes (Anansi
the Spider, Brer Rabbit,
Bugs Bunny)
Words like bogus, bug,
phony, yam, tote, gumbo,
tater, jamboree, jazz.
Creole Language