What are 5 things you can learn from the Atlantic Slave Trade from this map?

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The Atlantic Slave Trade- Student Exploration -

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“I was likewise told by a Negro woman that as she was on her return home, one evening,

from some neighbors... she was kidnapped; and, notwithstanding she was big with child,

sold for a slave. This transaction happened a considerable way up the country; and she

had passed through the hands of several purchasers before she reached the ship.”

What does the author say about how many of these slaves found themselves aboard a slave ship? ____________

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What are 3 things you can learn from the Atlantic Slave Trade from this primary source?

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“The voyage itself took between 6 and 8 weeks.

The enslaved Africans were chained together by

the neck, hand and the foot, wearing sometimes

the most uncomfortable and miserable gear. They

were packed into the smallest places where there

was barely enough room to lie on one’s side. It

was here that they ate, slept, urinated, defecated,

gave birth, went insane and died. They had no

idea where they were going, or what was going to

happen to them. Within these ships, Africans

from different countries, regions, cultures and

with different languages learned to communicate

with each other; many conspired to overthrow

their captors together.”

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Summarize what the author is saying in this quote:

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Imagine you were a slave aboard a slave ship. Sketch an image that shows your condition:

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“...they are frequently stowed so close, to allow no other position than lying on their sides. Nor will the height between deck permit the indulgence of an upright posture. ...In each of the apartments are placed three or four large buckets ...to which, when necessary, the Negroes have recourse. It often happens that those who are placed at a distance from the buckets, in endeavoring to get to them, rumble over their companions, in consequence of their being shackled ... unable to proceed and prevented from getting to the tubs, the necessities of nature are not to be resisted, ease themselves as they lie... In the morning they were dragged up and their shackles inspected. Any slaves who had died during the night (or too sick to recover) were unchained and thrown overboard. Their bodies were quickly eaten by the sharks that followed every slave ship.”

!e "et of # Negroes while on board cons%ts chiefly of horse beans boiled

to # cons%tency of a pulp; of boiled yams and &ce and sometimes a small

quantity of beef or pork... !ey are commonly fed twice a day; ab(t eight

o’clock in # morning and f(r in # a)ernoon. !eir food % served up to

*em in tubs ab(t # size of a small water bucket. !ey are placed r(nd

*ese tubs, in companies of ten to each tub, (t of which *ey feed *emselves

wi* wooden +oons o*ers ... wi* *eir hands. In fav(rable wea*er *ey are

fed upon deck but in bad wea*er *eir food % given *em below. Upon #

Negroes refusing to take su,enance, I have seen coals of fire, glowing hot, put

on a -ovel and placed so near *eir lips as to scorch and burn *em...

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Which “source” (1, 2, 3 or 4) addresses the picture to the right? Directly copy the quote from the source into the space provided:

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Which “source” (1, 2, 3 or 4) addresses the picture to the left? Directly copy the quote from the source into the space provided:

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Which “source” (1, 2, 3 or 4) addresses the picture to the right? Directly copy the quote from the source into the space provided:

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