1. Click through each of the slides in order.

You’ll
be watching videos, analyzing maps, and
reading primary sources. Then, after each
station, you’ll have some questions to answer.
2. The last two slides ask you to practice the skill
of historical context. Analyze the images and
answer the questions.
Directions: Watch the video
about the Atlantic Slave Trade
on this slide (just click), and
answer the questions on the
next slide. You can click back
and forth as much as you’d
like to answer the questions.
Directions: Watch the video about the Atlantic Slave Trade on the previous slide, and
answer the following questions.
1. How did the Atlantic slave trade begin?
Portuge traders went to Africa and begab buying slaves.

2. Why were Africans willing to sell other Africans into the slave trade?
Protect themselves
They want guns from the Protugese
There are no bonds between defferent tribes.

3. How did the African slave trade change Africa?

Depopulation- They lost a lot of labour forces, as well as the invading forces.
It depopulated Africa and created instability.

4. What impact did the Atlantic slave trade have on Africa’s future?
It weakned Africa leading to Equorean coloilnizatin in the 18 hundereds.

5. How did Europeans explain and justify slavery?

Europeans said they are biologically inferior.
“The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrived on the coast was the sea, and a slave ship, which
was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo. These filled me with astonishment, which was soon
converted into terror when I was carried on board.”
“I looked round the ship too and saw a large furnace or copper boiling, and a multitude of black people
of every description chained together, every one of their faces expressing sadness and sorrow, I no
longer doubted of my fate; and, quite overpowered with horror and suffering, I fell motionless on the
deck and fainted.”
“I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had
never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench, and crying together, I
became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now
wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me; but soon, to my grief, two of the white men offered me
food; and, on my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across I think the
windlass, and tied my feet, while the other whipped me severely.
“One day, when we had a smooth sea and moderate wind, two of my wearied countrymen who were
chained together (I was near them at the time), preferring death to such a life of misery, somehow made
through the nettings and jumped into the sea: immediately another quite sad fellow, who, on account of
his illness, was allowed out of chained, also followed their example; and I believe many more would Directions: Click to the
very soon have done the same if they had not been prevented by the ship’s crew, who were instantly next slide to answer the
alarmed.” questions.
STATION 1 - Directions: Read the story of Olaudah Equiano and answer the
following questions.
1. What experience is Equiano describing in the reading?
In the reading, Equiano is describing his horrifying experience on a ship that was sent by the Europeans from Africa to their
colonized world.

2. What types of descriptive words does Equiano use to describe his experience?
Equiano use extremely depressing and scared tone of voice to describe his experience, for example, “with the loathsomeness of
the stench, and crying together”.

3. Copy and paste a quote from this reading that sticks with you. Pick a quote that shows you what the experience was like.
“I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life: so that, with the loathsomeness of the stench,
and crying together, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. “ People
were traped inside the ships like caged birds, losing their freedom to escape or even to suicide. I am horrified, petrified,
terrified, mortified, and Stupified by his descriptions.
Directions: Watch the video
about the Middle Passage on
this slide (just click), and
answer the questions on the
next slide. You can click
back and forth as much as
you’d like to answer the
questions.
NOTE: The video is silent -
it is important that you
watch.
STATION 2 - Directions: Watch the video showing the Atlantic Slave Trade. Then,
answer the following questions.
1. Where were most of the slave ships coming from? (Be as specific as possible.)
Most slave ships were comming from the middle part of west coast Africa. Moving on, the whole Africa continent became a slave
trading producer.

2. Did this change over time? How?

The slave trade started to trade only to Brazil in the beginning, and Jamestown also started the slave trade in the year 1607. When
the civic war began in 1861, the number of slave trades in the Americas started to cease.

3. Where were most of the slave ships headed? (Be as specific as possible.)
South America (Brazil, and middle and west part of Africa)
North America (Southern America)

4. Did this change over time? How?

When the civic war began in 1861, the number of slave trades in the Americas started to cease.
1810, ships stoped to go into the states.

5. How did this visual explain slavery to you in a way that is different than reading about the middle passage?
The video explaination is more in detailed, it also helps me to comprehend the historical background story better.
 Between 1526 and 1866, 12.5 million African people were
shipped to North and South America.
Directions: Click
to the next slide
to answer the
Children made up 26% of the enslaved people on the middle passage.
questions.
Between 1492 and 1820, as many as
4/5s of people who came to the Americas were enslaved
people from Africa.
Only 6% of the people captured and sold out of Africa were
shipped to North America.
In the Southern Colonies (and later states) there was only 1
slaveholder with more than a 1,000 enslaved people and only
125 had more than 250 enslaved people.
STATION 3 - Directions: Read through the statistics on the slave trade. Answer the
following questions.
1. Why do you think slave traders captured so many children?
The slave traders captured numerous children because they are easy to be controlled and will have much longer working period.

2. If only 6% of the people shipped from Africa were transferred to North America, how did the United States end up with 4
million slaves by the start of the Civil War?
The United Stated end up with 4 million slaves by the start of the Civil War because 6 percent of 12.5 million people is already a
huge number of people, and plus the number of population growth, it is possible for the slave population to reach such huge
number.

3. Which of these statistics do you find the most surprising? Why?

I find the number of overall slaves most horrifying — 12.5 million people. I can not imagine thousands, even millions of people
being treated like they are nothing and how they managed to stay on the trading ships.
Letters to the King of Portugal
“Sir, Your Highness… we cannot imagine how great the damage is, since the mentioned merchants are taking
every day our natives, sons of the land and the sons of our noblemen and our relatives, because the thieves
and men of bad conscience grab them… they grab them and get them to be sold... our country is being
completely depopulated, and Your Highness should not agree with this nor accept it as in your service.”
“That is why we beg of Your Highness to help and assist us in this matter, commanding your traders that they
should not send here either merchants or goods, because it is our will that in these Kingdoms there should
not be any trade of slaves. Concerning what is referred [to] above, again we beg of Your Highness to agree
with it, since otherwise we cannot remedy such an obvious damage…”
...Many of our people, desire the things of your Kingdoms, which are brought here by your people, and in
order to satisfy their appetite, seize many of our people... and very often it happens that they kidnap even
noblemen and the sons of noblemen, and our relatives, and take them to be sold to the white men who are in
our Kingdoms; and for this purpose they have concealed them; and others are brought during the night so
that they might not be recognized…

Directions: Click to the next slide

- by Nzinga Mbemba (Afonso I)*
to answer the questions. 1526
STATION 4 - Directions: Read the letter from Nzinga Mbemba to the King of Portugal.
1. Why is the King of the Kongo (Nzinga Mbemba) upset?
The King of the Kongo is upset because the invading Europeans have turned his country into a crucible. People were trying to
kidnap others inorder to prevent themselves from being captured from the Europeans, even the nobles.

2. What is he asking for from the King of Portugal?

The King of Kongo is asking to stop the slave of trade.
 Click here to open the National Geographic Map. It will open in a separate tab for you.
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/photo/colonial-trade/

STATION 5 - Directions: Click to open the image from National Geographic. Then,
answer the following questions.

1. What kinds of goods were being transported from the thirteen colonies to Great Britain?

2. What types of goods were being transported from the thirteen colonies to Africa?

3. What types of goods were being transported from Africa to the West Indies?

4. What types of goods were being transported from the thirteen colonies to the West Indies?

5. Overall, what areas do you think benefited the most from the triangular trade? Why?
1. What is the historical HISTORICAL CONTEXT:- In order to explain historical context, one needs to
explain the historical circumstances surrounding the event described in the
context of this image? document or source. What events surrounded the creation of that source?

In this image, a group of “Enslaved Africans Cutting Sugar in the Caribbean,” 1823.
slaves are cutting
sugarcanes while a white
man riding a horse stands
nearby. The slaves were
dressed in European clothes,
implying that they were not in
Africa, but in some places
colonized by Europeans.
Men, women, and even
children were all forced to
work for the white man,
demonstrating to the readers
that they have no freedom or
power.
2. What is the historical HISTORICAL CONTEXT:- In order to explain historical context, one needs to
explain the historical circumstances surrounding the event described in the
context of this image? document or source. What events surrounded the creation of that source?

In this picture, we see an

African man leading a line pf
Africans who are going to be
sold as slaves. The slaver is
holding a gun and wearing
European clothing,
suggesting he has sold other
African previously. This
scene is similar to what is
described in Ninga
Mbambe’s letter to the King
of Portugal, in which he
described the people of his
kingdom kidnapping
nobelmen in exchange for
Portugese goods.