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: On
 
another
 
triangular
 
route,
 
merchants
 
carried
 
rum
 
and
 
other
 
goods
 
from
 
the
 
New
England
 
colonies
 
to
 
Africa. There
 
they
 
exchanged
 
their
 
merchandise
 
for
 
Africans. The
 
traders
 
transported
 
the
 
Africans
 
to
 
the
 
West
 
Indies
 
and
 
sold
 
them
 
for
 
sugar
 
and
molasses. They
 
then
 
sold
 
these
 
goods
 
to
 
rum
 
producers
 
in
 
New
 
England. Triangle
 
Trade
 
System,
 
1451–1870
GREAT
Africans
 
Enslaved
 
in
 
the
BRITAIN
Americas,
 
1451–1870
Manufactures
London
Paris
NORTH
 
Cotton,
 
Tobacco
EUROPE
AMERICA
Rum
40°N
 
New
 
York
Su
Cotton
Charleston
r,
 
Molasses,
Sugar,
 

 
40°E
80°E

 
g
 
40°W
120°W
80°W
MEXICO
Slaves
res,
Rum
JAMAICA
Guns
v
0°
Tropic
 
of
 
Cancer

 
CARIBBEAN
AFRICA
PACIFIC
Slaves,
Ivory,
 
OCEAN
Gold
Gum
0°
 
Equator
KONGO
INDIAN
 
OCEAN
SOUTH
Primary
 
slave
Luanda
trade
 
routes
AMERICA
ATLANTIC
OCEAN
Benguela
Other
 
trade
 
routes
Mozambique
Rio
 
de
 
Janeiro
Tropic
 
of
 
Capricorn
Tobacco
GEOGRAPHY
 
SKILLBUILDER: Interpreting
 
Maps
 

 
Movement
Afri