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EQ: EQ: How did slavery influence the development of Latin America?

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Date

3-12-14

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57

Title

Trade and Slavery

Looking at these images, what do they have in slavery in Latin America?

Slavery and Triangle Trade

Triangle Trade

European Background

• Portuguese 1441 started African slave trade in • First Africans in Hispanola in 1505 • 1450-1850 ~12 million Africans sent to Americas

Why Africans?

• • Native Americans dying off • Some degree of

disease resistance

• No muskets and gunpowder • Africans participated in trade by enslaving others, selling debtors and criminals, and kidnapping

Skilled

workers – Knew how to extract precious ore from mines – Familiar with soils and crops • Not familiar with the land—making escape less likely

Portuguese Slave Trade

• The Portuguese population was too small to provide a large number of colonists.

• The sugar plantations required a large labor force.

• Slaves filled this demand.

Europeans and Africans Meet to Trade

Slave Trade and Sugar

• Portuguese crop growers extended the use of slave labor to South America.

• Because of this, Brazil would eventually become the wealthiest of the sugar-producing lands in the western hemisphere.

European Slave Trade

Plantations

• The first was established by the Spanish on Hispaniola in 1516.

• Originally the predominant crop was sugar. In addition to sugar, plantations produced crops like tobacco, indigo, and cotton.

• In the 1530s Portuguese began organizing plantations in Brazil, and Brazil became the world’s leading supplier of sugar.

• Labor intensive= HARD WORK • Relied almost exclusively on large amounts of slave labor supervised by small numbers of European or Euro-American managers.

Plantations

Brazilian sugar mill in the 1830s

Justification- Why?

• Slavery made development of the New World profitable $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $

Slavery Expands

• In 1518, the first shipment of slaves went directly from West Africa to the Caribbean where the slaves worked on sugar plantations.

• By the 1520s, the Spanish had introduced slaves to Mexico, Peru, and Central America where they worked as farmers and miners .

• By the early 17 th century, the British slaves to North America .

had introduced

Impact of Slave Trade on the Americas

•

Diverse Culture Cultural Diffusion-

brought part of their culture Africans (like music, food, traditions, language) to the Americas. •Made Latin American colonies (Brazil) wealthy

Triangular Trade

Exportation

• Trip called the Middle Passage • 5000 miles, 3 wks. to 3 mos.

• 20-25% died • Strip Africans’ self respect and self identity

Slave Master Brands

The Middle Passage

The Middle Passage

Inspection and Sale

First Slave Auction New Amsterdam (Dutch New York City - 17c)

Cape Coast Castle, W. Africa

What role did geography play in the Triangle of Trade?

IMPACT ON WEST AFRICA Europeans began the Atlantic slave trade in the 1500s. Their colonies in the Americas needed labor to work on large plantations. European traders sold enslaved Africans to colonists. Families were split up, and many people died. By the time the slave trade ended in the 1800s, millions of Africans had been taken from their homes.