This week in class we discussed the reading what has Africa given America , which i blogged about lash week. In class we discussed the food , entertainment and traditions over. Also is in class we made a poster for each group which demonstrated the Transatlantic slave trade. In class my group had to identify the regions where the slaves were being transported. With our research and interactive activity we were able to identify that the slaves were distributed to mainly South America , North America and the West Indies. We drew a poster of each continent and showed that the trade all originated from Europe. In further detail this week i have picked a part to focus on for my future class assignments with creating a timeline. I will focus on slaves getting traded to the West Indies. In particular i will pick either Barbados or Jamaica to focus on and do more research. I chose this topic because i wanted to explore and see the importance of sugar in the West Indies regions and the impact one ingredient has had on various people and regions. Overall we learned the importance of the African diaspora and how slaves were taken from their homeland and placed in other regions and uprooted for their normal lives. Learning where the trade originally started was vital to knowing the entire timeline and which regions were involved.
https://youtu.be/dnV_MTFEGIY (YouTube link for a video describing the overall summary of the slave Atlantic slave trade created by Crash Course)
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