List three historical examples of slavery. Who abolished slavery in the West in 1830?
Barbary/Muslim/Islamic, Slavs, Roman, etc.; Christians.
Why couldn't Europeans use natives as their slave labor force?
Disease, refusal to work, breeding with each other, etc.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
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Where did the slaves for the Transatlantic Slave Trade come from? Who sold them?
West Africa; fellow black Africans.
Explain the Triangular Trade network.
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Name four European powers which were fighting for control of the Caribbean Sugar Islands.
England, France, Spain, Portugal, the Netherlands (Holland), Denmark, etc.
Name four cash crops grown on Caribbean Islands.
Sugar, coffee, rice, cotton, indigo, tobacco, etc.
What was life like on a sugar plantation?
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What was the most interesting thing you learned today? Why?
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Where did slaves trafficked in the Transatlantic Slave Trade end up? (three regions)
North America: ~5%, Caribbean Islands: ~50%, Brazil: ~45%.
