Do Now

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 Describe what you see in these images.

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 Learning Target/Agenda
Learning Target: I can explain how
slavery was practiced in the United States

Agenda:
 Do Now: analyzing images
 Individual Practice: Triangle Trade
map work, Cotton Gin primary source
 Group Practice: Walter Rimm
 Homework: complete My America;
 Background
 Slavery has existed since ancient times in Europe, Africa, Asia, and the Americas.
 The Trans-Atlantic slave trade (white Europeans selling black Africans in the
Americas) began in the 1500’s. Slaves were transported from Africa to the
Americas across the Atlantic Ocean. This trade is incredibly profitable and many
people build their fortunes on the back of others’ suffering

Slave market in early medieval Europe Bill of sale for a ‘Negro Boy” from an 1807 slave auction
 Notes
Slaves Arrive in the Americas…
 Triangle Trade: system of trade linking European
nations, their American colonies, and Africa
 Middle Passage: brutal middle leg of the “Triangle Trade”
where slaves were brought across the Atlantic Ocean from
Africa to colonies in the New World

Triangle Trade

Middle
Passage
 Notes
Most slaves lived on…
 Plantation: large farm where crops are grown for
profit
 Cash Crop: crops
grown only for profit
(tobacco, cotton)

Model Plantation
 Notes
Slavery Changes When…
 Cotton Gin: makes cotton production much faster and cheaper
 Eli Whitney: invents the Cotton Gin
 “King Cotton”: producing cotton becomes extremely profitable and the South devotes itself to growing
cotton
 Wrap Up
On a sheet of looseleaf paper, answer the following
question: how was slavery practiced in
America?

Your answer must be at least seven, complete

sentences in length and include evidence from class
to support your argument (details about the Triangle
Trade, Cotton Gin, and Walter Rimm’s story). Be sure
to include the affects of slavery on all people living in
America.