Atlantic Slavery
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"...Slavery allows us a glimpse of what we are capable of as a species. When we designate a group of people as the “other,” then we can do with them as we wish. Still, slaves produced the commodities that make the Atlantic trade circuit work. Slaves produced commodities that changed Asian trade as well. In the early modern period, the result was that the initial wealth of the Western world was built on the backs of African slaves..."
Key Terms
- Triangular Trade
- Slave Society/Society with Slaves
- Middle Passage
Guided Viewing Questions
- What big changes in the early modern world contributed to the rise of Atlantic Slavery?
- Explain the difference between a slave society and a society with slaves.
- What was slavery like in Africa?
- Why did most Africans slaves who transported to the New World sent to Brazil or the Caribbean?
- What reasons explain why Europeans bought Africans as slaves for their labor force in the New World?
- What were conditions like for Africans on the Middle Passage?