Title: 
Headings: The Atlantic Slave Trade
The
 
Atlantic
 
Slave
 
Trade

MAIN
 
IDEA
 

CULTURAL
 
INTERACTION
To

WHY
 
IT
 
MATTERS
 
NOW
 

TERMS
 
&
 
NAMES

TAKING
 
NOTES

The
 
Causes
 
of
 
African
 
Slavery
 

Analyzing
 
Motives

Slavery
 
Spreads
 
Throughout
 
the
 
Americas

Slavery

Analyzing
 
Issues


 
Forced
 
Journey

Triangle
 
Trade
 
System,
 
1451–1870

GREAT
Africans
 
Enslaved
 
in
 
the
BRITAIN
Americas,
 
1451–1870

PACIFIC

OCEAN

KONGO
INDIAN
 
OCEAN

OCEAN

GEOGRAPHY
 
SKILLBUILDER:
 
Interpreting
 
Maps
 

The
 
Horrors
 
of
 
the
 
Middle
 
Passage

DOCUMENT-BASED
 
QUESTIONS

Slavery
 
in
 
the
 
Americas

Consequences
 
of
 
the
 
Slave
 
Trade

TERMS
 
&
 
NAMES

USING
 
YOUR
 
NOTES
MAIN
 
IDEAS

CONNECT
 
TO
 
TODAY

CRITICAL
 
THINKING
 
&
 
WRITING


Content: Lured
 
by
 
its
 
profits,
 
many
 
African
rulers
 
continued
 
to
 
participate. African
 
merchants
 
developed
 
new
 
trade
 
routes
 
to
avoid
 
rulers
 
who
 
refused
 
to
 
cooperate. Analyzing
 
Issues
Why
 
did
 
many
African
 
rulers
 
partic-
ipate
 
in
the
 
Atlantic
slave
 
trade? Forced
 
Journey
After
 
being
 
captured,
 
African
 
men
 
and
 
women
 
were
 
shipped
 
to
 
the
 
Americas
 
as
part
 
of
 
a
 
profitable
 
trade
 
network. Along
 
the
 
way,
 
millions
 
of
 
Africans
 
died. The
 
Triangular
 
Trade
Africans
 
transported
 
to
 
the
 
Americas
 
were
 
part
 
of
 
a
 
transat-
lantic
 
trading
 
network
 
known
 
as
 
the
 
triangular
 
trade. Over
 
one
 
trade
 
route,
Europeans
 
transported
 
manufactured
 
goods
 
to
 
the
 
west
 
coast
 
of
 
Africa. There,
traders
 
exchanged
 
these
 
goods
 
for
 
captured
 
Africans. The
 
Africans
 
were
 
then
 
trans-
ported
 
across
 
the
 
Atlantic
 
and
 
sold
 
in
 
the
 
West
 
Indies. Merchants
 
bought
 
sugar,
 
cof-
fee,
 
and
 
tobacco
 
in
 
the
 
West
 
Indies
 
and
 
sailed
 
to
 
Europe
 
with
 
these
 
products.