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Triangular Trade & Slavery

Triangular Trade & Slavery. Review. What was the Columbian Exchange? What was the Triangular Trade?. Causes of slavery in the New World?. Europeans needed a source of labor in the New World Gold & silver mining Sugarcane farming. Why were African slaves used?.

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Triangular Trade & Slavery

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  1. Triangular Trade & Slavery

  2. Review • What was the Columbian Exchange? • What was the Triangular Trade?

  3. Causes of slavery in the New World? • Europeans needed a source of labor in the New World • Gold & silver mining • Sugarcane farming

  4. Why were African slaves used? • Native Americans made bad slaves • Died from diseases, fled into wilderness, weren’t used to farming • Europeans didn’t want to do hard labor themselves (only wanted to profit from it) • Established practice of slavery in Africa • Africans familiar with farming

  5. How did slaves get from Africa to the New World?

  6. The Middle Passage

  7. Effects of Slavery? • Millions of Africans sent to the New World • Untold numbers dead during Middle Passage • Set precedent for slavery in New World • Plantation owners grew rich from slave labor

  8. Effects of Slavery?

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