Friday, May 15, 2009

Atlantic slave trade map

Atlantic slave trade map: 1600’s, 1700’s, 1800’s

- England, France, Spain/Portugal
- Morocco, Senegal, Ghana, Nigeria
- Puerto Rico, Haiti/Dominican Republic, Cuba, Jamaica, Bahamas, Florida

- Trade winds, Atlantic currents (as in hurricane travel from Africa to the Gulf)
- Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico

- Trade goods: metal, fabric & glass products, slaves,
molasses, sugar, rum.
- sugar cane & plantations

- Caribs, Arawaks, Tainos
- Conquistadores
- African farming and slavery

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