•Slavery was practiced since the beginning of documented history. •Spanish people used slaves to work on sugar plantations. •Spanish and Portuguese expanded African slavery into Central and South American after enslaved Indians died of disease and mistreatment. •1619: the first recorded introduction of African slaves into Jamestown •Only 20 slaves were Slaves captured in Africa Slaves aboard ship—Middle Passage Slavery in the Americas
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Slavery was practiced since the beginning of documented history. Spanish people used slaves to work on sugar plantations.
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•Slavery was practiced since the beginning of documented history.
•Spanish people used slaves to work on sugar plantations.
•Spanish and Portuguese expanded African slavery into Central and South American after enslaved Indians died
of disease and mistreatment.•1619: the first recorded introduction
of African slaves into Jamestown•Only 20 slaves were purchased
Slaves captured in Africa
Slaves aboard ship—Middle Passage
Slavery in the Americas
SLAVE TRADECaptured Africans forced to exist in crowded conditions
• 7 to 10 million slaves brought to Americas.
• 10-20% died on ships (sickness)
• “The(y) are so wilful and loth (unwilling) to leave their own country, that they often leaped out of the canoes, boats, and ship, into the sea and kept under water till they drowned, to avoid being taken up.”
• Q: Why did they risk death by jumping out of the ship?
Growth of SlaveryAfrican to Americas, 1451-1810
• Brazil – 2,501,400• English Colonies – 2,013000• French Colonies – 1,600,000• Spanish Colonies – 945,600• Dutch Colonies – 500,000
• 348,000 – in North Africa• 1,665,000 in English colonies
in Caribbean islands
African Slaves in English Colonies
• Most of slaves came to Virginia from the Caribbean as field hands to plant, tend, and harvest tobacco.
• Increasingly used for tobacco, cotton, rice and indigo (blue dye) down South
This is called the Middle Passage
Indentured ServantsIndentured servants became the first means to meet this need for
labor. In return for free passage to
Virginia, a laborer worked for four to five years in the fields before
being granted freedom. The Crown rewarded planters with
50 acres of land for every inhabitant they brought to the New