Transatlantic slave trade

The state of a person who is held in forced servitude

• Mercantilism

• Slavery

• Trade

• Middle Passage

an agricultural estate usually worked by resident labor

• Mercantilism

• Slavery

• Plantation

• Enslavement

A belief that race is a fundamental determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race

• Plantation

• Slavery

• Racism

• Middle Passage

The enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, as distinguished from other systems of forced, unpaid, or low-wage labor also considered to be slavery.

• Chattel Slavery

• Plantation

• Middle Passage

The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas

• Plantation

• Slavery

• Middle Passage

• Chattel Slavery

A person who signs and is bound by indentures to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance

• Slavery

• Indentured Servant

• Middle Passage

• Plantation

In your own words explain the triangular slave trade.

Why did Europeans turn to Africa for labor?

https://community.weber.edu/weberreads/mercantilism.htm

Read the article and explain how slavery was affected by mercantilism.