Middle Passage

• Difficult journey for enslaved people around the Atlantic

Crammed tightly to maximize profits

Sickness and suicide

Slavery

• The rise of the trans-Atlantic trade created a rise in the black population

• Slavery growth was tied to cash crops and the plantation economy

• Northern lumber and fishing were less taxing and required less work

• southern cash crop resulted in hard labor - planters enslaved people from West Africa and the Caribbean to do the work

Resistance to Slavery

• Many enslaved people developed strategies to resist

• Examples: Runaway, violence, religion, relationships, architecture