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Exploration & The Slave Trade

Exploration & The Slave Trade. The “Columbian Exchange”. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization. Explorers. Conquistadores. Official European Colony!. Missionaries. Permanent Settlers. Treasures from the Americas!. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. The Slave Trade.

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Exploration & The Slave Trade

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  1. Exploration & The Slave Trade

  2. The “Columbian Exchange”

  3. Cycle of Conquest & Colonization Explorers Conquistadores OfficialEuropeanColony! Missionaries PermanentSettlers

  4. Treasuresfrom the Americas!

  5. Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

  6. The Slave Trade • Existed in Africa before the coming of the Europeans. • Portuguese replaced European slaves with Africans. • Sugar cane & sugar plantations. • First boatload of African slaves brought by the Spanish in 1518. • 275,000 enslaved Africans exportedto other countries. • Between 16c & 19c, about 10 million Africans shipped to the Americas.

  7. Slave Ship “Middle Passage”

  8. “Coffin” Position Below Deck

  9. African CaptivesThrown Overboard Sharks followed the slave ships!

  10. European Empires in the Americas

  11. The Colonial Class System Peninsulares Creoles Mestizos Mulattos Native Indians Black Slaves

  12. Administration of the Spanish Empire in the New World • Encomienda or forced labor. • Council of the Indies. • Viceroy. • New Spain and Peru. • Papal agreement.

  13. The Influence of the Colonial Catholic Church Our Lady of Guadalupe Guadalajara Cathedral Spanish Mission

  14. The Treaty of Tordesillas, 1494 & The Pope’s Line of Demarcation

  15. Father Bartolome de Las Casas New Laws  1542

  16. New Colonial Rivals • Portugal lacked the numbers and wealth to dominate trade in the Indian Ocean. • Spain in Asia  consolidated its holdings in the Philippines. • First English expedition to the Indies in 1591. • Surat in NW India in 1608. • Dutch arrive in India in 1595.

  17. New Colonial Rivals

  18. Impact of European Expansion Native populations ravaged by disease. Influx of gold, and especially silver, into Europe created an inflationary economic climate.[“Price Revolution”] New products introduced across the continents [“Columbian Exchange”]. Deepened colonial rivalries.

  19. 5. New Patterns of World Trade

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