Goal 3 WIC (3.3)

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Flashback: 5 min.

Work in pairs and give answer to the first three questions on the next slide. You are allowed to discuss your answers.

Why was the VOC founded?

In which products did the VOC trade?

Explain why the VOC belonged to ‘everyone’

Goal 3 (WIC and Slavery)

• You can explain why the WIC was founded
  
• You can explain which products were shipped from Europe to Africa and to America
  
• You can explain why the slave trade resulted in a global economy
  

the WIC (1621):

- Trade with America and West Africa

(slavetrade)

- Privateering (against Spain and Portugal)

  

Due to a lot of competition from other countries, the WIC never became as successful as the VOC.

 

In 1628, Captain Piet Hein managed to deal a heavy blow to Spain by capturing the Silver Fleet (a fleet of a load of silver used to pay for the war).

De gravure toont de verovering van de Zilvervloot onder leiding van admiraal Piet Heyn in de baai van Matanzas. De Zilvervloot stuitte in september 1628 op de vloot van Piet Hein. Deze slaagt er vrijwel direct in negen schepen te veroveren. De andere schepen die deel uitmaken van de Zilvervloot vluchten de Baai van Mantanzas aan de noordkust van Cuba in. Piet Hein en zijn mannen weten echter ook deze schepen al snel te veroveren. De buit bestaat uit goud, parels, handelswaar en 177.000 pond zilver die een totale waarde vertegenwoordigd van 11,5 miljoen gulden.

the territories of the WIC

In order to participate in the triangular trade between Europe, Africa and America, the WIC took possession of territories.

 

In WIC possession remained Suriname, African coastal forts and the Antillean islands.

Openbare verkoping van een slavin en haar twee kinderen in Paramaribo. (Tekening door P.J. Benoït, Voyage à Surinam (1839), pl. 89, collectie Universiteit van Amsterdam).

Triangular Trade

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Trade between European countries, West-African tribes and European colonies in the Americas

Each segment of the triangle had specific "goods"

The segment between Africa and America is called the Transatlantic slave trade

Slave trade

African slave traders brought slaves to the European trading posts on the West coast (for example fort Elmina).

Slaves were transported by ship to auctions in America.  

Slave ships (1 in 8 slaves died):

• crowded
• poor hygiene
• bad food
• slaves were chained

Slavery on plantations

Plantation owners bought slaves at auctions.

Life at the plantation

• Families were separated
• Lived the rest of their lives on the plantation
• Punishments for fleeing and not working hard enough.

Slavery

Slaves tried to resist:

• By destroying the harvest.
• Keeping old customs and traditions, language and religion (culture)
• Sometimes there were succesful escapes or uprisings.

Uprisings were almost always crushed with violence.

Coursebook p. 68-69/ Workbook p.84

First read:

o Privateering and the slave trade

Than do

exercise 2abc on page 84. Ready? Work in your file of goals. 

We will discuss your anwers the last 10 minutes.

Do the check on the next slides or work in your file of goals (3).

Look at the picture about the triangular trade.

Drag the words to the correct place in the picture:

Slaves

Koffe, Cotton, Tabacco

Firearms, gunpowder, textiles.

Does it belong to the VOC or the WIC?

VOC

WIC

Indies

Trade with Japan

slavetrade

spices

sugar, tabacco

Why were slaves branded?

1. So their tribe didn't want them back.
2. To punish them
3. To show who owned them.

Which goods were shipped at number 1?

1. Slaves
2. Sugar and tobacco
3. Alcohol and weapons

People could be enslaved for different reasons.
Which answer is not a proper example?

1. To pay of debts
2. Captured by slave hunters
3. Because of their religion
4. Prisoner of war

Extra information

On the next slide there's  link to a video (in Dutch about the WIC).