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Atlantic Slave Trade

By clarinatty
  • 1629 BCE

    Atlantic Slave Trade

    Atlantic Slave Trade
    Captured Africans were sold to European slave traders.enslaved Africans were auctioned and forced to work under brutal conditions.
  • 1629 BCE

    Scope of the Slave Trade

    Scope of the Slave Trade
    The total slave trade to islands in the Caribbean, North & South America is estimated to have involved 12 million Africans. About 600,000 African slaves were imported into the U.S., or 5% of the 12 million slaves brought across from Africa.
  • 1607 BCE

    Virginia Colonies

    Virginia Colonies
    John Smith convinced the colonists of Jamestown, that searching for gold was not taking care of their immediate needs for food and shelter. They had an extremely high mortality rate.
  • 1607 BCE

    Religious Immigration

    Religious Immigration
    Roman Catholics were the first major religious group to immigrate to the New World. English and Dutch colonies tended to be more diversely religious
  • 1587 BCE

    Indentured Servants

    Indentured Servants
    During the 17th century, indentured servants constituted 75% of all European immigrants. Most of the indentured servants were teenagers from England. The main source of labor and a large portion of the immigrants were indentured servants looking for new life in the overseas colonies.
  • 1537 BCE

    The Slavery Question

    The Slavery Question
    In 1537, the papacy definitively recognized that Native Americans possessed souls, thus prohibiting their enslavement.
  • 1537 BCE

    Forced Immigration and Enslavement

    Forced Immigration and Enslavement
    Slavery existed in the Americas before the arrival of Europeans, American Indian groups often captured and held other tribes' members as slaves. Some captives would become human sacrifices.
  • 1492 BCE

    Disease and Indigenous Population Loss

    Disease and Indigenous Population Loss
    The large-scale contact with Europeans after 1492 introduced novel germs to the indigenous people of the Americas. Epidemics swept the Americas subsequent to European contact, killing between 10 million and 100 million people, up to 95% of the indigenous population of the Americas :
    smallpox (1518, 1521, 1525, 1558, 1589, typhus. (1546), influenza, (1558), diphtheria, (1614) and measles (1618)

  • Search for Riches

    Search for Riches
    Inspired by the Spanish riches from colonies founded upon the conquest of the Aztecs, Incas, etc. The first Englishmen settled permanently in America in hopes to find rich discoveries. The first permanent settlement was in Jamestown, VA in 1607

  • Migration to North America

    Migration to North America
    Charles I, King of England and Scotland, persecuted religious dissenters. Waves of repression led to the migration of about 20,000 Puritans to New England between 1629 and 1642. They founded multiple colonies.