Colonial America

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.

The original purpose of the Jamestown colony was to make money for the Virginia Company.

A Promise To Give Land to People Who Settled In Virginia

The Headright System, introduced in Virginia, gave each head of household the right to fifty acres of land for himself and fifty additional acres for each adult family member of servant that he brought to America.

The four square kilometers of land was given to anyone who was accepted to cross the Atlantic Ocean to help populate the colonies.

The Headright system began in the US state of Virginia.

The Headright system tried to solve the labor shortage problem. It was also a way to attract new colonists. Immigrant colonists were given one headright and could receive one more for each passage they paid for an additional immigrant.

The Headright system also led to too much distribution of land, increasing the tension between the Native Americans and the colonists. It also let to the increase of indentured servitude and slavery.

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.

They used slave labor to produce cash crops.

European businesses.

If gave a chance to better their lives (Apex)

Through slave traders who brought slaves through the Sahara desert to the Mediterranean Sea.

Keeping livestock allowed many hunters to do other things.

African Port Cities grew in importance

The navigation act is the support the role of colonies. This was supported by England.

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