The Atlantic Trade�The Triangular Trade
Definition
Triangular Trade:
Trade routes between Africa, Europe and the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Portugal
Prince Henry the Navigator
Fort �Elmina
Spain
King Charles I
Asiento
England
England
England
England
Maps of the Triangular Trade
The Trade: Stage One
1. Kidnapping
2. Trading
3. People were given by chiefs as tributes (gifts)
4. Chiefs would send people who were in debt
5. Chiefs would send criminals through judicial
process
6. Prisoners of tribal wars were also sent.
Goree, or Slave-Stick
A French naval officer, in the Angola region in the late eighteenth century, describes how slave traders used "a forked branch which opens exactly to the size of a neck so the head can't pass through it. The forked branch is pierced with two holes so that an iron pin comes across the neck of the slave . . ., so that the smallest movement is sufficient to stop him and even to strangle him”
Goree, or Slave-Stick
Forced Participation
African Chiefs did resist in the beginning; however, they needed weapons for defence.
The Europeans were too powerful; therefore, any effort to resistance was unsuccessful
If chiefs did not supply slaves, they were threatened to be taken as slaves.
Stage Two: The Middle Passage
Stage Two
“Loose packing”
“Tight packing”
Stage Three
Auctions
- They put tar on the slaves to hide any sores and cuts
- Slaves were inspected
- An auction to took place and the higher bidder would get to purchase the slave.
- Bids were taken as long as an inch of a candle burned.
- Slaves were branded
- Families were separated
- They were given a European name.
Auctions
2. Private Auctions:
Auctions
Auctions: The cost of a slave
Slavery Abolished in the Britain Empire
Slavery in America: �The Slave Codes