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Assignment:

The Atlantic slave trade, which lasted for more than three centuries, brought millions of Africans 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. It was the largest forced migration in history. By the eighteenth century, the voyage across the ocean in European ships called "slavers" had become known as the "Middle Passage." British sailors coined the phrase to describe the middle leg of the triangular journey first from England to Africa, then from Africa to the Americas, and finally from the Americas back to England.

This chapter describes the Atlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage. It explores their origins both in European colonization of the Americas and in the slave trade that had existed in Africa for centuries. It focuses on the experience of the enslaved people whom the trade brought to America. For those who survived, the grueling journey was a prelude to servitude on huge agricultural factories called plantations. Many who became African Americans first experienced plantation life in the West Indies--the Caribbean islands--where a process called "seasoning" prepared them for lives as slaves in the Americas.

Define the following terms:

• Indigo
• Chattel
• Cash Crop
• Industrial Revolution
• Factories
• Slaver
• Middle Passage
• Indentured Servant
• Seasoning
• Acculturating
• Creoles

Please answer the following questions:

• How did the arrival of the Europeans affect Africa?
• According to Map 2-1, which in the Americas imported the most slaves?
• How did the African slave trade compare with the Atlantic slave contrast? How did it contrast?
• How would you evaluate the relationship between the Atlantic slave trade and the Industrial Revolution?
• How would you trace the experiences of enslaved Africans from capture to arrival in the West Indies? How did Africans adapt to conditions in the Americas?
• How were slaves treated in the Americas?
• What were the factors involved in the ending of the Atlantic slave trade?
• How did the Atlantic slave trade and the Middle Passage originate as the result of the European colonization of the Americas and in the slave trade that existed in Africa?