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☆☆☆☆☆The term Middle Passage refers to the transportation of the African people from Africa to the new world as part of the Atlantic slave trade, as it was the middle portion of the triangular trade voyage, also carrying molasses, timber and raw materials to Europe, and manufactured goods back to Africa. The Middle Passage refers to the part of the trade where Africans, densely packed onto ships, were transported across the Atlantic to the West Indies.
Results of the French and Indian War, also known as the Seven Years War, included:
- Increased taxes on the American colonists to pay for the war
- England acquired the former French territories in Canada and owned all the land from the Atlantic Coast to the Mississippi river.
- French from Acadia were expelled and migrated to Louisiana, forming the Cajun culture
- settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains was forbidden by the Crown
- England acquired formerly French territory in the Caribbean and in India.
- King George III taxed American colonists to pay for the war.
- King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Most were captured by rival tribes and sold to slave traders in West Africa, who transported many slaves to the Caribbean and the colonies in the American South.
they sold other Africans to slave traders
The West African tribes, waged war with each other in order to raid and captured people from rival tribes which they then transported to the coast and sold to slave traders. It was a lucrative business for them and made the coastal tribes very rich and powerful.
The middle passage
Through slave traders who brought slaves through the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean Sea.
Fewer indentured servants arrived as conditions in europe improved.
england
A piece of property.
Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
fewer europeans became indentured servants
New England
On plantations in southern colonies.
britain returned it to te french, angering british colonist
