The passage describes the triangular slave trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. It began as Europeans established colonies in the Americas but lacked a sufficient workforce. Africans were enslaved and transported to the Americas to work on plantations and mines, as they were better suited to the tropical climate and resistant to European diseases. The triangular trade route involved ships transporting supplies from Europe to Africa, slaves from Africa to the Americas, and goods from the Americas back to Europe, providing profits for European merchants but great suffering for enslaved Africans through the Middle Passage.

1. Homework: Two perspective journal entry. The Triangular Trade

2. Different Foods and Products Over time, crops native to Americas became essential in the diet of the Europeans. These new foods provided more nutrition and helped people live longer. The demand for these new agricultural products grew and native slaves were worked even harder.

4. Harsh treatment and European diseases caused the natives to become very sick and die. Europeans no longer had a large population of natives to work on their plantations. African had remained immune to many of the European diseases and Europeans began to capture and enslave Africans sending them to the Caribbean Islands, Mexico, and Central and South America to work on the haciendas.

6. The Triangle Trade Begins Expanding European empires in the New World lacked one major resource -- a work force. In most cases the indigenous peoples had proved unreliable. Most natives were dying from diseases brought over from Europe, and Europeans were unsuited to the climate and suffered under tropical diseases.

7. The Triangle Trade Begins Africans, on the other hand: Africans excellent workers Africans had experience working with agriculture and raising cattle Africans were used to a tropical climate Africans were resistant to tropical diseases Africans were very strong and could be "worked very hard" on plantations or in mines.

8. The Triangular Trade The triangular trade represented a profitable enterprise for merchants. The business was risky, competitive, and severe, but enslaved Africans earned a high price at auctions, making the trade in human cargo a very profitable business.

9. 1.) The first leg of the triangle was from a European port, where supplies would be shipped to a port in Africa. 2.) When the slave ship arrived, its cargo would be sold in exchange for slaves. The ship would then make the journey along the Middle Passage to the New World. 3.) Once the slave ship reached the New World, the surviving slaves would be sold for a good profit. The ship would be cleaned and loaded for a return voyage to their home port completing the triangle.

10. Homework: Imagine that you are aboard a slave ship. Write a journal entry from two perspectives the captain who stands to make a fortune and a slave Kidnapped from their home and sold into slavery… Journal Entry from the Captain… ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Journal Entry from a Slave… ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________