Define the Atlantic slave trade in your own words. (Basic)

The Atlantic slave trade was the forced transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas between the 15th and 19th centuries.

Identify three goods that Europeans traded to African kingdoms in exchange for slaves. (Basic)

Manufactured goods, weapons, and rum.

To enrich their own realms and strengthen themselves against neighboring enemies.

The loss of tens of millions of able-bodied people, particularly men, significantly altered the population structure and potential for growth.

Kingdoms needed European firearms to defend themselves from slave raids, which they bought with slaves, creating a cycle of violence and enslavement.

Grade 11th Grade · Social Studies · 50 min

I can analyze the social and economic impacts of the Middle Passage.

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The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard

3 key concepts

1
The Atlantic slave trade, which occurred from the late 15th to the mid 19th century, forcibly brought more than 10 million Africans to the Americas.
2
The crops grown in the new colonies that increased the demand for slaves were sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton.
3
When the slave trade was outlawed, the African kingdoms whose economies it had come to dominate collapsed, leaving them open to conquest and colonization.

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“Describe two social or economic impacts of the Middle Passage on African societies, based on the video.”

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