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Columbian Exchange. Columbian Exchange: global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and food as a result of European Exploration. Columbian Exchange. Global diffusion of biological goods (food, disease, animals, plants) Began in the 1400s
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Columbian Exchange: global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and food as a result of European Exploration
Columbian Exchange • Global diffusion of biological goods (food, disease, animals, plants) • Began in the 1400s • Corn and potatoes were most important – cheap, easy to grow, highly nutritious
Population changes Americas ↓ because diseases Europe ↑ because new foods make people healthier
Atlantic Slave Trade Page ?
Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying, transporting, and selling of Africans for work in the Americas
Why Africans? • Slavery had existed in Africa since the 600s when Muslims enslaved non-Muslims • Most Native Americans were killed by European diseases • Many Africans had immunity • Africans were unfamiliar with the Americas less likely to escape or have allies.
By 1870 around 9.5 million Africans were imported to the Americas in bondage. • Majority of slaves worked on large sugar, tobacco, and coffee plantations.
Middle Passage: the middle leg of the Atlantic Slave Trade that brought Africans to the West Indies, and N+S America Roughly 20% did not survive the journey (disease, cruel treatment, suicide).
Impact AFRICA • Many societies lost entire generations of their healthiest people • Families were torn apart AMERICAS • Colonies became profitable • African culture influenced many societies throughout the Americas.
William Wilberforce (1759-1833) "God Almighty has set before me two great objects, the suppression of the Slave Trade and the Reformation of manners [morals].”October 1787 Abolition of slave trade in England Slave Trade Act 1807 (outlawed all British involvement in the Atlantic Slave Trade)
OlaudahEquiano(1745-1797) • Key player in campaign to end slavery • 1789: wrote and published, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of OlaudahEquiano
Triangular Trade Page ?
Triangular Trade: transatlantic trading route connecting Africa, Europe, and the Americas