The document summarizes the triangular slave trade that operated between Europe, Africa, and the Americas from the 16th to 19th centuries. It describes how slaves were transported on the Middle Passage from Africa to the Americas in terrible conditions aboard crowded ships, where disease was rampant and millions of slaves died during the journey. The African kingdoms that engaged in the slave trade, such as Dahomey and Asante, grew wealthy but it devastated Africa by depopulating the continent and removing its resources and people.

1. Shipping Goods and People
Kamila Machuca
Alejandra Menacho
Camila Nuñez
Ximena Pacherrez

2. Introduction

3. The triangular trade
• Arrival of Europeans the slave trade became part of the triangular trade.
• On the first leg, merchants shipped Europeans goods. On the second leg,
known as the Middle Passage, the slaves were transported to the Americas.
• In Europe the need for labor grew so they make agreements with African
slave traders who would kidnap anyone they could find to sell as slaves.

4. • Triangular trade or triangle trade is a historical term indicating trade
among three ports or regions.
 England to Africa.
 Africa to the Americas.
 The Americas back to England.
Atlantic triangular slave trade
• The best-known triangular trading system is the transatlantic slave trade,
that operated from the late 16th to early 19th centuries, carrying slaves,
cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, Caribbean or
American colonies.

6. Aboard the
floating coffins
• The Middle passage voyage might take three weeks or three
months depending on ocean winds. Most slave ships
captains had one goal: to pack as many salves as possible
onto the ship to maximize profits. Many slaves died because
they contracted smallpox, cholera, or yellow fever. Any
contagious disease became a deadly epidemic. Many
Africans died in the middle passage, between 1 and 2 million
died on the journey.

7. • Olaudah Equinao was a boy
that was kidnapped with his
sister and was sold to the
slavery. He wrote one of the
most well-known accounts of
the Middle Passage. He relates
his story, and say: “I became so
sick and low that I was not
able to eat. I now wished for
the last friend, death, to relieve
me.”

8. Impact on Africa
• The kingdoms of the coast of Africa like Dahomey and Asante
grew up being rich capturing their African companions into
slavery.
• The Asante leaders actively partnered with European traders
to build coastal fortresses that served as focal points for the
shipping of goods and slaves
• Many captives went to great lengths to escape their captors

9. Impact on Africa

10. resources
• https://www.landofthebrave.info/triangular-
trade.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangular_trade
• http://bigthink.com/videos/colonialisms-
impact-on-africa
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4HLbsr
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