First slaves to the americas

    • [DOC File]John Hawkins and the origins of the English slave trade

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      The first Englishman recorded to have taken slaves from Africa was John Lok, a London trader who, in 1555, brought to England five slaves from Guinea. A second London trader taking slaves at that time was William Towerson whose fleet sailed into Plymouth following his 1556 voyage to Africa and from Plymouth on his 1557 voyage.


    • [DOC File]DOCUMENT BASED QUESTION: PRE-HISTORY

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      Although American slavery and the Atlantic slave trade to the Americas are more widely studied, slavery is as old as the world’s first civilizations. Contemporaneous to the era of the Atlantic slave trade were two other slave movements: one across the Sahara Desert and another along the East African coasts of …


    • [DOCX File]Auburn School District / Homepage

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      On the first leg of their three-part journey, often called the Triangular Trade, European ships brought manufactured goods, weapons, even liquor to Africa in exchange for slaves; on the second, they transported African men, women, and children to the Americas to serve as slaves; and on the third leg, they exported to Europe the sugar, rum ...


    • [DOC File]AP World History

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      First slaves arrived in Portugal in 1441 but over the years even though the Portuguese and other Europeans raided for slaves the numbers were small. What gave impetus to the slave trade was the sugar plantations the Portuguese and Spanish began to develop on the islands of Madeira and the Canaries ( sugar plantations demanded a great number of ...


    • [DOC File]LESSON PLAN The Atlantic Slave Trade pages 115–119

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      Slaves were carried to the Americas and exchanged for raw agricultural products, such as sugar, coffee, and tobacco, which were carried to Europe and sold. Middle passage: Captured Africans were transported under horrific conditions along the middle leg of the triangular trade routes.


    • I Slavery in Latin America and the Caribbean

      At the time of the first imperial census of 1872 there were 4.2 million free colored in Brazil compared to 1.5 million slaves and 3.8 million whites. In contrast to the rest of Latin America, the population of free blacks relative to the number of slaves remained small in …


    • [DOC File]African Crops and Slave Cuisine - Rice Diversity

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      Without question, yams were the most common African staple fed to enslaved Africans on board ships bound for the Americas. The slave merchant John Barbot, for example, noted that "a ship that takes in 500 slaves, must provide above 100,000 yams," or roughly 200 per person.


    • [DOC File]Test

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      _____ that became desirable to Europeans. It became the first cash crop of the Americas. A. Corn B. Tobacco C. Wheat D. Rice _____8. Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to colonize an island off the coast of present-day. North Carolina in 1585. John White attempted to colonize the same island in 1587.


    • [DOCX File]Chapter 01 The First Civilizations of North America

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      Explain the development of human settlement in the Americas and compare the key features of early Mesoamerican, South American, and North American societies. Topic: Early Americans 2. About 15,000 years ago BP, which land bridge was used by migrants to cross between Siberia and Alaska? A. Bering StraitB. Alaskan StraitC. Siberian StraitD.


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