ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

Scope of the Salve Trade

1860 BCE

Caribbean, North and South America have about 12 million Africans.
600,000 Africans were imported to the U.S.

Migration to North America

1629 BCE

Charles l, King of England and a Scotland, persecuted religious dissenters.
About 20,000 Puritans led to the migration to New England between 1629 and 1642.

The Search for Riches

1607 BCE

Spanish founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, and another large Native American populations in the 16th century.
The purpose of of this colony was to find gold.

Virginia Colonies

1607 BCE

It took a long time to convince John Smith to search for gold.
Tobacco later became a cash crop, with the work of John Rolfe and others.

Religious Immigration

1607 BCE

Roman Catholics were the first ones to immigrate to the New World.

Indentured Servants

1587 BCE

During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted 75% of all European immigrants to the Chesapeake region.

Indentured Servants (cont.)

1587 BCE

By selling passage for 5 to 7 years worth of work they could then start out on their own in America.

THE SLAVERY QUESTION

1537 BCE

Some claimed that a native who had rebelled and then been captured could be enslaved nonetheless.

Forced Immigration & Enslavement

1537 BCE

Native populations declined from European diseases, they were often replaced by Africans imported through a large commercial slave trade.

Disease and Indigenous Population Loss

1492 BCE

The large-scale contact with Europeans after 1492 introduced novel germs to the indigenous people of the Americas.

Atlantic Slave Trade

Feb 15, 1537

Africans sold Europeans on the West African coast.
Africans were forced to work under brutal conditions.