The Middle Passage

How did trans-Atlantic slavery most affect the population of Africa?

There were fewer men to clear fields and hunt.

How did the triangular trade benefit Europeans?

Europeans obtained raw materials from the Americas.

How did the writings of Olaudah Equiano affect the slave trade?

They encouraged slave traders to improve conditions on their ships.

How did hunger strikes by enslaved Africans affect slaveholders during the Middle Passage?

Slaveholders knew that an enslaved person weakened by hunger could be sold for less money.

To escape enslavement while on board slave ships, some Africans

jumped overboard.

Conditions on slave ships caused

slave traders to put an end to the slave trade.

Read the quotation from the writings of Olaudah Equiano, an African who experienced the Middle Passage."The closeness of the place, and the heat of the climate, added to the number in the ship, which was so crowded that each had scarcely room to turn himself, almost suffocated us."A conclusion that can be drawn about slave ships from this description is that passengers

suffered greatly during their journey to the Americas.

In the 1600s and 1700s, European plantations in the West Indies

turned to slavery to fulfill their need for workers.

Slavery in the Americas

was based on race.