Slavery lesson 3

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Slavery lesson 3

The Dutch golden Age or the Dutch Dark Age?
(1588 - 1702)

Golden Age

Dark Age

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VOC and WIC

founded in 1602 and 1621

Dutch slave trade

• Transatlantic 

• Triangular (transporting enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas, shipping goods like sugar and tobacco back to Europe, and exchanging European goods for more enslaved people in Africa)

1. Why did Europeans feel the need to racialize the enslavement of Africans?

2. Name at least two consequences the slave trade had on Africa.

Slavery in the East-Indies

Slavery in the East-Indies was 

more decentralized, involving 

local enslavement and 

forced labor

Life in slavery

Name at least 2 differences between the VOC and WIC

What is the triangular trade?

How was slavery in the East-Indies different in comparison with slavery in The Americas?

Assignments

From your reader: 7 + 8 chapter 1 Slavery

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