Atlantic Slave Trade1450-1750 CE

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Sugar in Polynesia

Arab trade in Polynesia

Arabs discover

distillation & cultivate

sugar

Europeans learn of

distillation & use sugar grown by

Arabs

Europeans grow sugar in Americas & drink spirits on voyage

there

Slave trade brings slaves

by using spirits to grow sugar and to make more

spirits

Sugar

Rum Slaves

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Between 1500-1866, an

estimated:• 12.5 million people were

taken from Africa• Africa had ~18% of world

population in 1600• only 6% in 1900• 1.8 million died in the

Middle Passage (14.4%)

• 10.7 million worked as

slaves in the Americas

BEFO

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• Slavery’s origins?• Unit 2 Slavery?

BEFO

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• Unit 3 Slavery?• Indian Ocean/Trans-Saharan

Trade; Southern Russia• African societies & Slavery•Vulnerability + assimilation•Islamic world positions

•Inheriting slave status?•Gender & slavery

The slave trade in practice

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo(aka Job ben Solomon)

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Kara Walker“A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby”

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ice • 10 minute reading

period• 5 minute grouping• 5 minute thesis writing• Peer edit