The document discusses the slave trade and plantation system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It explains that Europeans established plantation systems in the Americas that required vast amounts of labor. They turned to Africans to fill this labor need, as the indigenous populations had died off and Europe did not have a sufficient workforce. This led to the triangular slave trade route, where Europeans traded goods to African rulers in exchange for slaves, who were then brought to the Americas and the Caribbean to work on plantations, producing goods that were shipped back to Europe to complete the triangle. The slave trade had severe consequences, underdeveloping Africa while fueling the economic growth and industrialization of Western Europe.

1. THE SLAVE TRADE
PLANTATION SYSTEM
PRESENTER: ARDITH CONWAY

2. THE SLAVE TRADE
Trade had existed between the Europeans and the Africans before colonialism.
“AN AFRICAN ONLY BECAME A SLAVE WHEN HE REACHED A SOCIETY WHERE HE WORKED AS A SLAVE.”
-WALTER RODNEY.

3. START WITH WHY

4. WHY?
• Europeans recognized the potential of the Americas in tropical
produce.
• Plantations systems needed a vast amount of labor.
• The indigenous Indian population died and Europe did not
possess the required labor force.
• Africans were accustomed to settled agriculture and disciplined
labor.

5. WHY?
• Europeans recognized the potential of the Americas in tropical
produce.
• Plantations systems needed a vast amount of labor.
• The indigenous Indian population died and Europe did not
possess the required labor force.
• Africans were accustomed to settled agriculture and disciplined
labor.

6. HOW?
• In some cases, the Europeans raided African villages in Western Africa.
• Mostly, Europeans exchanged manufactured goods for slaves from the
Africans themselves.
• African rulers found European goods desirable enough to hand over
captives from war as well as their own subjects.
• Obtaining slaves in order to trade to Europeans became an economic
activity.

7. WHAT?
• Triangular trade usually evolves when a region has export
commodities that are not required in the region.
• The Triangular trade is a trade model, not an exact description of
the ship's route.
• It consisted of three parts.

8. TRIANGULAR TRADE: PART 1
• The first part of the triangle was from a European port to Africa, in
which ships carried manufactured goods.
• Typical cargo included copper, cloth, guns and ammunition.
• When the ship arrived, its cargo would be sold or traded for slaves.

9. TRIANGULAR TRADE: PART 2
• In the second part, ships made the journey of the Middle Passage from Africa to
the New World.
• Many slaves died due to the harsh conditions on board.
• Once the ship reached the New World, enslaved survivors were sold in the
Caribbean or the American colonies.

10. TRIANGULAR TRADE: PART 3
• In the third part, ships were then loaded with export goods for a
return voyage to their home port.
• Goods were mostly agricultural products produced by slaves.
• Export cargoes included sugar, rum, molasses, tobacco and hemp.
• The ship’s arrival in Europe, where the demand originated,
marked the completion of the triangle.

11. THE TRIANGULAR TRADE MODEL

12. CONSEQUENCES: ON EUROPEANS
• Walter Rodney asserted that the industrial revolution was at least
in part funded by agricultural profits from the Americas.
• Eric Williams suggested that the increase of consumption goods
called forth by that trade inevitably drew in its train the
development of the productive power of the country.
• By exploiting Africa there were able to make developments in
commercial banks, shipping, the steam engine and even simple
things such as piano keys.

13. FOR EXAMPLE:

14. CONSEQUENCES: ON AFRICANS
• Africa helped to develop Western Europe in the same proportion
as Western Europe helped to under develop Africa.
• Slaving prevented the remaining population from effectively
engaging in agriculture and industry, and it employed
professional slave hunters and warriors to destroy rather than
build.
• African economic activity was affected both directly and
indirectly by population loss.

15. CONSEQUENCES: ON AFRICANS

16. LAWS THAT GOVERN SLAVE TRADE
The movement of slaves from Africa to the European colonies or to the mother land
was controlled by European laws.
• The navigation acts from Great Britian
• The Code Noir (the black code) from France

17. REFERENCES
• METHODS OF TRANSPORTATION THROUGH THE CENTURIES. (2017). PREZI.COM. RETRIEVED 11
OCTOBER 2017, FROM
HTTPS://PREZI.COM/PSLTNQMJDJAF/METHODS-OF-TRANSPORTATION-THROUGH-THE-CENTU
RIES/
• NAVIGATION ACTS ***. (2017). LANDOFTHEBRAVE.INFO. RETRIEVED 11 OCTOBER 2017, FROM
HTTPS://WWW.LANDOFTHEBRAVE.INFO/NAVIGATION-ACTS.HTM
• RODNEY, W. (1973). HOW EUROPE UNDERDEVELOPED AFRICA. LONDON, U.K.: BOGLE-L’
OUVERTURE PUBLICATIONS.
• CLARKE, J. H. (1992). CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS AND THE AFRIKAN HOLOCAUST: SLAVERY AND
RISE OF THE EUROPEAN CAPITALISM. NEW YORK, U.S.A: A &B BOOKS.

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