The slave trade by https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu A padlet about the slave trade and the plantation life en-us 2023-02-28 14:16:46 UTC 2023-03-10 14:13:46 UTC hello@padlet.com WHAT IS THE SLAVE TRADE? rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2498087796 The slave trade refers to the transatlantic trading patterns which were established as early as the mid-17th century.]]> 2023-02-28 14:58:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2498087796 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2498106852 Slavery existed from the earliest times.
It was an important part of the economic and social life of many ancient civilization.

Labour was in short supply throughout America.

The planters commonly hired indentured servants, but they were temporary and expensive.

Then they started to enslave Indians, but they fled into the wilderness or died from diseases.

Black slaves seemed the ideal answer to the economic problem]]> 2023-02-28 15:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2498106852 THE SLAVE TRIANGLE rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511848609 Slaves were bought in West Africa, and were takein in America. If they survived the journey they were sold and forcd to work on plantations.
The products were sent to Britain and then to Africa, in exchange for more slaves.]]> 2023-03-10 13:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511848609 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511853963 2023-03-10 13:42:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511853963 "THE MIDDLE PASSAGE" rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511857799 Once full, the trader's ship would depart on the voyage from Africa to America.
The slaves would be kept in the ship's hold, crammed close together with little or no space to move.
Conditions were squalid and many people died.]]> 2023-03-10 13:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511857799 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511861122 2023-03-10 13:48:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511861122 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511863846 On the final leg of the transatlantic route, European
ships returned home with cargoes of sugar, rum,
tobacco, cotton and other luxury items.]]> 2023-03-10 13:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511863846 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511867282 2023-03-10 13:53:51 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511867282 WHAT HAPPENED AFTER BEING SOLD? rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511870468 The majority of those sold into slavery were destined
to work on plantations in the Caribbean and the
Americas, where huge areas had been colonized by European countries.
These plantations produced goods meant for
consumption back in Europe.]]> 2023-03-10 13:55:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511870468 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511871967 Hard work, no rights, no freedom.]]> 2023-03-10 13:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511871967 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511872684 Slaves were just objects, the property of their masters.]]> 2023-03-10 13:57:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511872684 rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511878093 The African slaves brought with them a rich heritage
including songs. 

Adapted to reflect their experience of
life and hard work in the plantations, these work
songs evolved into what we still know as “spirituals”,
religious songs, which alleviated the fatigue of slaves’
work and terrible lives.
]]> 2023-03-10 14:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511878093 WADE IN THE WATER rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511890962 2023-03-10 14:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511890962 PICK A BALE OF COTTON rebeccamatalonii https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511891484 2023-03-10 14:11:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rebeccamatalonii/tq3nn424nwgjkwdu/wish/2511891484