From Africa to the Americas: The Sugar Triangular Trade

Only a small portion of the enslaved - less than half a million - were sent to North America. The majority went to South America and the Caribbean. In the mid-1600s, Africans outnumbered Europeans in nascent cities such as Mexico City, Havana and Lima.
Less than ____________________ African slaves were sent to North ____________. The majority went to _________________ and the Caribbean.

A TERRIBLE TRADE

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is called a Triangular Trade for its three-legged route that began and ended in Europe.

The _________________ Slave Trade is called a __________________ Trade.

European ships took goods to Africa, where they were exchanged for slaves. The ships then sailed to the Americas to trade slaves for agricultural products - extracted by slave labor - which were sold in Europe. __________________ ships took goods to ________________ , where the goods

were exchanged for _____________________.

Freedom in Spanish Florida The part of southFlorida held by the Spanish, became a destination for escaped slaves. The first free, all black settlement, Fort Mose, was north of St. Augustine in 1738. ____________________ slaves went to south ______________________. In _________________, the first free black settlement was Fort ______________, North of St. _______________________.

As the country expanded westward with acquisitions such as the 1803 Louisiana Purchase and inventions made cultivating certain crops more profitable, the demand for slave labor increase A New Cash Crop

Eli Whitney's invention of the cotton gin in 1793 started the new cotton economy. This new machine multiplied the profit potential for America's planters, making it possible to separate seeds from cotton without destroying the fiber.
The 1803 _________________ Purchase and new inventions increased the demand for _____________ labor. The invention of the ____________ gin in 1793 started the new ________________ Economy.

Cotton Fuels a Second Middle Passage Cotton plantations spread in the "Deep South." In 1790 around 650,000 slaves worked with rice, tobacco, and indigo. By 1850 the country had 3.2 million slaves, 1.8 million of whom worked in cotton. By the middle of the 19th century, the southern states were providing two-thirds of the world's supply of cotton.

In 1790 around __________________ slaves in the South worked with ____________, ________________ and indigo . By 1850 1-8 million of the 3.2 slaves worked with ______________________.

Forced migration and the separation of families happened within America, just as it did between Africa and the New World. Families that had been together for generations along the Atlantic coast were forever separated. Forced migration and the ________________ of families happened within _________________.