Atlantic Slave Trade CHST

Plantations

large agricultural estates throughout the Americas

barracoons

slave stockades on the African coast, generally run by Europeans and supplied by African rulers who leased the land for the buildings to the Europeans; slaves we’re held in stockades until shipment

Middle Passage

the collective name applied to the shipment of African slaves across the Atlantic throughout the time of the Atlantic slave trade, which generally took about two months

Justification of slave trade

European demand for sugar, coffee, and tobacco ; racism developed to justify use of African slaves over other groups

Causes of the Slave Trade

Population growth in Europe, demand for consumer commodities, demand for these items too great for Europeans settlers to meet the demand by themselves, Native American population decline and new laws against enslaving Native Americans, slavery was a profitable way to meet the demand, a single adult slave could pay for himself in sugar produced after about a year— the rest of his life would be of profit