Middle Passage + Slavery (jan 1, 1607 – jan 1, 1754)

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Human Cost of Atlantic Slave Trade
½ a million died in voyage
Congo-Angola region provided 40% of slaves
Brazil, Caribbean, North America
Middle Passage
Brutal and often deadly trip across Atlantic
Crowded into hold, branded and mistreated, disease
Not enough food or water, sexual abuse, could not communicate because spoke different languages, didn’t know where they were going to end up
Rise of Slavery Reshapes Southern Colonial Society
Cash-crop plantations
Tobacco, rice, indigo
Helped elites, hurt poor whites and Blacks
White colonists and Native Americans pushed farther west


Gang Labor System
Slaves codes became more strict
Laborers were split into ”gangs” to work at a rapid pace on their assigned task
Very harsh
Used to produce cash crops

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