slavery beginnings

• 1. Slavery in the U.S.

2. The Middle Passage

• This was the journey from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.

• Africans were crowded and chained cruelly aboard slave ships.

• Diseases such as dysentery, malaria, and small pox killed thousands of Africans on this journey.

• 20 percent of those who took this journey did not survive.

3. 4. 5. Why were Africans used as slaves?

• They did not get sick from many diseases in the Americas.

• They could work in hot weather.

• What two crops were common in the South?

6. Arriving in America

• If slaves survived the Middle Passage they were sold at markets in America.

7. 8. Plantations

• Many slaves were brought to work on plantations.

• A plantation is a farm that grows only one crop (examples are cotton and tobacco).

9. VIDEO 10. Slave Life

• Slaves worked in the fields, in the house, or did anything else their master told them to do.They worked up to 18 hours a day.

• They were not allowed to learn to read or write.

• They were forbidden to own property.

11. Slave Homes

• Slaves often lived in small log cabins with dirt floors. They were cold and dirty.

12. SLAVES ARE PROPERTY! What are these and what were they used for? 13. Punishments

• If a slave ran away and were caught they might have to wear a neck ring.

• If they continued to run away they might have a hand or foot removed.

• Many slaves were whipped for disobeying their masters.

14. Review Questions-Answer in complete sentences.

• What was the Middle Passage?

• What two crops were common in the South?

• What were plantations?

• What war did the disagreement over slavery lead to?