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Triangular Trade System
A
SYSTEM
of exchange between
the Old World (Europe)
and
the New World (the Americas)
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Triangular Trade System
How did the Triangular Trade affect
Europe, Africa and the Americas?
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Triangular Trade System
included
MANUFACTURED PRODUCTS
RAW MATERIALS
SLAVES
exchanged between the New and Old Worlds after
Columbus’ arrival in the Americas
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The Triangular Trade
System
began with the Spanish and Portuguese
transporting
African Slaves
To the New World as a labor force beginning in 1532.
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Triangular Trade System
HERE’S HOW IT WORKED…
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
BEGINS WITH
QUEEN ISABELLA OF SPAIN…
granting New World Spanish colonists
the “right” to demand labor of Native
Americans …
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
An unjust right called…
ENCOMIENDA
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
ENCOMIENDA was nothing more than
permission to enslave the natives.
The Spanish and Portuguese tried
using New World native populations as
slaves but, unfortunately …
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The
History
Behind
The Slave
Trade
they kept dying in the millions as a result of cruel
treatment, starvation, and fatal exposure to new
diseases.
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
Bartolomé de las Casas
…and other Spanish Catholic missionaries
of the Dominican order were appalled by the
injustices they saw committed by the slave
owners against the Indians…
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
So…
De Las Casas and the Dominicans
became advocates for better treatment of
the natives and for an end to
ENCOMIENDA
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
Unfortunately,
as an advocate for native populations,
Bartolomé de las Casas
suggested that native slave labor could
be replaced by
African slave labor
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
In other words…
replacing one set of slaves for
another
?
But where were the
Africans’
advocates?
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
The Spanish and
Portuguese
began importing
Africans into the
New World as a
labor source in
1532.
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
Africans were sturdier as they had
already been exposed to the Old World
diseases and, in many cases, had
developed immunities to these diseases.
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The Spanish used African slave labor in their
gold and silver mines in South American and on
their sugar plantations in the Caribbean islands.
The Portuguese used the African slaves on their
sugar plantations in Brazil.
The History Behind The
Slave Trade
As the English began
increasing their power
in the New World
relative to other
European powers they,
too, became heavily
involved in the African
slave trade.
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The History Behind The
Slave Trade
It was the English who eventually
evolved the trade concept called the…
Triangular Trade System
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Triangular Trade System
Generally,
crops and raw
materials collected
or mined in the New
World were shipped
to Europe and used
to create
manufactured
products
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Triangular Trade System
The manufactured
goods were then
sent to Africa and
traded or sold in
exchange for
African slaves.
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Triangular Trade System
The slaves were
then transported to
the Americas and
bought by plantation
owners with money
earned from the
sale of raw
materials to
Europeans .
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Triangular Trade System
This triangular trade evolved to flow in any
direction in which a profit could be made
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Triangular Trade System
The leg of the trade triangle that involved
the transport of slaves from Africa was
called the…
MIDDLE PASSAGE
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Triangular Trade System
The
MIDDLE
PASSAGE
proved to be a
brutal and
deadly
journey for
millions of
slaves
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Triangular Trade System
The leg of the trade triangle that involved
the transport of slaves from Africa was
called the…
MIDDLE PASSAGE
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The African Slave Trade
Many
Europeans
did not
think that
there was
anything
wrong in
enslaving
Africans.
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The African Slave Trade
After all,
ancient
Greeks,
Romans,
and Gauls
had kept
slaves.
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The African Slave Trade
Even
Africans
enslaved
other
Africans.
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The African Slave Trade
Europeans
thought of
themselves
as superior
to everyone
else in the
world.
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The African Slave Trade
African language and
customs were so
different from European
ways…
Africans must,
therefore, be inferior
to Europeans and no
more than animals.
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The African Slave Trade
This sense of
superiority is called…
ETHNOCENTRISM
Ethnocentrism
made slave trade possible.
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The African Slave Trade
Ethnocentrism
 Created a legacy of cultural
inequality that extended the
practice slavery for many
years.
 Promoted cultural inequality
in areas even after slavery
was abolished.
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Summary: THE TRIANGULAR TRADE.
Triangular trade = THREE-WAY trade:
 RAW MATERIALS shipped from Americas to
Europe
 MANUFACTURED GOODS shipped from
Europe to Africa.
 SLAVES shipped from Africa to Americas
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Summary: THE TRIANGULAR TRADE.
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