CH1 sec. 2.2.1 Slavery

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Memo hm 2 TTO

CH1. The age of regents and rulers

The Golden Age

sec. 2.2.1 Slavery

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Learning objectives

1) I can explain why Europeans traded slaves on a large scale.

2) I can show the triangular trade in a diagram and describe the role of the transatlantic slave trade within this trading sytem.

3) I can explain how Europeans made money from slavery.

4) I can explain why Europeans had no problems with the slave trade and slavery.

I know the terms and dates from this section.

Slavery

Slavery = system in which people own, buy and sell other people as property.

In Africa, the Arab world and large parts of the world outside Europe, slave trade was part of the economy.

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Slavery

17th century Europeans establish trading posts and plantations in America.

• Indians died from plantation work and disease.
  
• European traders brought slaves from West Africa to work on  plantations.

Slavery

African slave trade was part of triangular trade.

Trade between West-Africa, America and Europe. 

• In West Africa, Europeans bought slaves in return
  

     for example guns, alcohol and copper objects. 

• WIC sold the slaves in America to plantation owners. In Surinam and the Antilles many plantations were owned by people from the Republic. The slaves were not paid for the hard work on the plantations. 
• The ships then sailed back to Europe, loaded with sugar and tobacco.

Slave trade between Africa and America = transatlantic slave trade.

Slavery

Europeans made money from :

• Trade in African slaves
• Sale of products produced by slaves (free labor)
  

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Europeans had no problem with the slave trade:

• According to them, Africans belonged to a different, inferior human species. Europe was ahead of Africa in terms of technology.
  
• According to them, African culture was less than their own, for example because Africans were not Christian.

Only Europeans were involved in slave trade and slavery.

1. True
2. False

Europeans in the 17th century had no problems with slave trade. Which answer doesn't belong here.

1. Europeans would go out and hunt for African slaves themselves.
2. Europeans looked down on African culture.
3. Europeans looked down African religion.
4. Europeans thought Africans were a inferior human race.

Learning objectives

1) I can explain why Europeans traded slaves on a large scale.

2) I can show the triangular trade in a diagram and describe the role of the transatlantic slave trade within this trading sytem.

3) I can explain how Europeans made money from slavery.

4) I can explain why Europeans had no problems with the slave trade and slavery.

I know the terms and dates from this section.

Get to work

What? See whiteboard.

How? Alone 

Help? Ask neighbour. Can't figure it out? Ask teacher. 

Time? Until the end of the lesson. 

Done? Learn terms and dates. Ask teacher.