The Slave Trade

Hello Students:

In your regular classes you have begun a study of the Immigration in the United States. Today, we will look at a group of people who did not come to this country voluntarily. We will begin an inquiry into the Slave Trade in the American Colonies and later the United States.



Click here to read a short article about slavery. When you have finished, answer the following questions in your social studies notebook:

1) European colonists were not the only people who made up the population of the American colonies. ___________ who had been captured, brought to America, and enslaved, also lived in the New England colonies.

2) Fewer than ________ slaves lived in the colonies of New England in the year 1700. By the end of the 18th century, the population of enslaved Africans had reportedly reached _________.

3) When the America declared its independence in 1776, ___________ had the second largest slave population in America.


4) Define the following terms:

a. slaves

b. 18th Century

c. population

d. colonists

e. cultures

f. enslaved

g. customs

h. colonized