The Transatlantic Slave Trade

SÉANCE 19                                                Liverpool and the slave trade p 118

Recap what you have learnt about the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

PART 1

Organizing the slave trade

In the new colonies in the Americas, colonists needed slaves because they were cheap workers without any rights

Slavery can be defined as legal and social system

PART 2

A boom in British economy: use the questions to help you write a summary on part 2.

!!!!! You are talking about a past subject “thanks God” so you must use THE PRETERIT

Who became very rich? What did they do with the new money? What products did they import from the colonies? Who produced them? Who bought them? How did the slave trade work?

The citizens of Liverpool got very rich. They were bought slaves. They imported from the colonies, tabacco, coffee, chocolate, sugar and cotton. The slaves produced all that. The colonies bought their production. It worked like this, they went and got the slaves in Africa then they took them to America and made them work to produce after the crops got to Europe

PART 3

Liverpool’s role in the slave trade: sum up these paragraph with the help of these words.

The Liverpool Merchant/ Liverpool’s geographical assets/The city leaders.

The Liverpool Merchant was the first slave ship that sailed from Liverpool to West Africa in October 1699. Liverpool wan a slave trade leader because of its geographical location, it could be easily reached by rivers and canals so that trade good was brought cheaply to the port. Nearly all principal Merchants, citizens and even many mayors were involved in the slave trade.

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