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Chapter 20.3 - The Atlantic World - Section 3 - The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Slave Trade
European trade agreement with Africa dealing with slaves brought from Africa.
triangular trade
A three way trade, Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa
Middle passage
A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.
What effect did the spread of Islam have on the slave trade?
Muslim belief that non-Muslim prisoners of war could be bought and sold as slaves.
How did enslaved Africans resist their bondage?
They made themselves less productive by breaking tools, uprooting plants, and working slowly. Thousands also ran away. Some slaves pushed their resistance to open revolt.
How did African slaves contribute to the development of the Americas?
African slaves contributed greatly to the economic and cultural development of the Americas. Their greatest contribution was their labor. Africans brought their expertise, especially in
agriculture.
Why did many African rulers participate in the Atlantic slave trade?
African rulers delivered slaves to the Europeans in exchange for gold, guns, and other goods.
Why did the job of being an indentured servant shift to enslaved Africans?
Fewer people became indentured servants and slaves are a better long term investment.
The production of sugar? What did it look like? How did it contribute to the rise of the atlantic slave trade?
Slaves were a big part of the production of sugar. It was a key stimulant to slavery because it required so many slaves and the owners made profit.
Muslim slavery
Islamic law held that no freeborn Muslim could be sold into slavery.
Mercantilism
This was minimizing imports and maximizing exports by shipping materials out oversea.
Abolitionism
A person that wants to end slavery
The end of the slave trade in Britain (how was it ended?)
It was ended in 1888 and
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