What was the crossing of the Atlantic Ocean called in the slave trade?
Which islands controlled by the Portuguese were a starting point of the transatlantic slave trade?
Identify what percentage of slaves died during the Middle Passage journey.
About 15 percent
Explain role of Africa in the Triangular Trade.
Africa supplied enslaved people to the Triangular Trade. European traders exchanged goods for captives, who were then forcibly transported across the Atlantic and sold in the Americas.
Explain the importance of slaves to the English.
Enslaved Africans were forced to provide labor on English plantations, especially those producing crops such as sugar and tobacco. Their labor helped English plantation owners and merchants make large profits.
Explain Portuguese movement and sale of slaves.
The Portuguese took enslaved Africans from Africa across the Atlantic, especially to Brazil, and sold them to plantation owners and other buyers for forced labor.
Explain the role that America played in the Triangular Trade.
In the Americas, enslaved Africans were sold and forced to work, often on plantations. They produced crops and raw materials that were shipped to Europe as part of the Triangular Trade.
Explain the reaction when Portuguese explorers brought back goods from Africa.
Identify the main reason that the English considered the African slaves as less than human.
The English considered Africans less than human because of racist beliefs that people with different skin color and origins were inferior. These beliefs helped them justify slavery and exploitation.
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