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Slavery in American South: Using slave labour P.136-139 - Coggle Diagram
Slavery in American South: Using slave labour
P.136-139
What was slavery?
Slaves were:
Treated as piece of property.
Treated not like humans.
Treated extreme brutality.
Slaves for life, even their children.
Forced to work for owner.
Not paid.
Had no rights.
Not allowed to learn (read & write).
Reasons
for using slave labour
Brought slaves from W. Africa to do hard work in America South.
They did not have enough people to work on the vast plantation.
How slaves captured, sold & transported
Africans bring captives to base & exchange for goods.
Captured Africans marched by slave traders to trading centres.
Euro traders set up base on W. Africa coast.
Kept in prison (barracoons) until sold.
Sold for guns, whisky, cloth or metal goods.
Africans often kidnapped by Africans.
Local chiefs sold them to traders.
Europeans kidnapped people from homes.
Once sold branded with red-hot iron of Euro company that bought them.
Slaves taken by ship across Atlantic.
Slave market
Slave sales advertised in newspaper & posters.
Slaves bought & sold at auctions.
Reach America, sold at slave markets.
Small red flag hoisted during auctions.
Slaves in line facing bidders.
Bidders shouted price willing to pay.
Highest bid got the slave.
Slaves sometimes bought & sold many times in their life.
Number of slaves taken to America
Actual number will never be known.
No doubt numbers are in the millions.
Historians estimate 12 million Africans
Raw materials that slaves produced
Cotton woven into material for clothes.
Sugar cane turned to sugar, for food & drinks.
Taken to England, made into products in factories.
Tobacco made into pipe & chewing tobacco.
Cash crops harvested & packed on ships.
Sold to people in Britain & exported to colonies, sold for big profits.
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But Europeans colonising changed the nature of slavery.
European slavery was called chattel slavery.
Existed in Africa long before Europeans came.
Chattel slaves bought & sold like cattle.
Example of brutal behaviour.