1600's - 1700's

1600's

100

In what year did Maryland pass a law that recognized slavery as legal?

What is 1664

200

In 1667, the legislature of what colony passed an act that ended the practice of freeing enslaved Africans after they were baptized?

What is Virginia

300

By 1670, it is estimated that the African population in Virginia represented ______ per- cent of an estimated 40,000 settlers or residents in the colony. Although the number of enslaved blacks grew slowly Virginia, slave laws began to appear as early as the 1640s primarily because those who owned slaves were among the planter class who made the laws. In addition, they were expecting to increase the number of enslaved black population in the colony. What was the percentage of Africans (enslaved and free) among settlers in the Virginia Colony?

What is 5 percent

400

By 1670, the southern part of the Carolinas (South Carolina) had received many enslaved African and white residents from this island in the Caribbean. In many ways, their economies were similar. Name the island.

What is Barbados; the colony was called “child of Barbados”

500

This word describes "a string of enslaved Africans connected by a forked branch or rope" and being marched. It was used to lead enslaved Africans from the interior of the continent to the coast, adding newly captured or purchased enslaved Africans on the way. Name it.

What is coffle

1600's

100

To maintain a slave trading monopoly and a constant supply of enslaved African labor, the British government gave a charter to what company?

What is Royal African Company

200

On February 18, 1688, what group adopted the first formal anti-slavery resolution in American history?

What is They called slavery the “traffic of mensbody.” Quakers

300

One of the earliest "triangular trade routes" brought enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies. What product was frequently shipped from the West Indies to the North American mainland?

What is sugar or molasses

400

In the 1700s, plantation owners believed slaves were necessary to successfully produce many different crops. Which crops were most dependent on enslaved African labor?

What is rice, cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo (hemp and wheat, for example, were less dependent on enslaved African labor)

500

In the early 1700s, enslaved blacks in the “tidewater” region were primarily used in growing tobacco. What jobs did they do in growing this crop?

What is weeding, seeding, plow- ing, hilling, cultivating, hoeing, topping, worming, harvesting, stripping, curing, sorting

1700s

100

As tobacco production became more profitable, more planters turned to producing it. Tidewater colonies began enacting slave codes as they brought more enslaved blacks into the colonies. In fact, by 1700, the population of Africans in Virginia--the vast number enslaved--had multiplied tenfold to how many? 20,000. Over the course of the next 50 years, no less than how many enslaved blacks were brought into the Chesapeake region?

What is 100,000

200

In the 1700s, this city in England was called “Queen of English slave trading” because it supplied almost half of the ships used in the Atlantic slave trade. Name the city.

What is Liverpool, England

300

In the South Carolina colony, this crop was introduced in the 1690s and became the primary export crop in the early 1700s. This crop was the main source of income for farmers in the Carolinas and by the 19th century it was a significant crop in Virginia and Georgia, too. It was a labor intensive crop and used a large number of enslaved blacks to do the work, including the construction of canals and ditches to maintain adequate supplies of water. Name the crop.

What is rice

400

In the 1700s, this important crop was grown in South Carolina to produce a blue dye for cloth. This crop grew best on high ground and required about 25 slaves for a 50- acre plot. Fifty pounds per acre was considered a good crop, with 70 pounds per acre possible in better soils. Name this crop.

What is indigo

500

What is the name of the two month-journey for enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies?

What is During this journey, they were brutally treated. Middle Passage

1700s

100

Between 1680 and 1750, what was the average number of enslaved Africans carried on an English ship coming directly from Africa to the American mainland?

What is about 200

200

In the 1700s, rice agriculture in the colonies was found in the “low country” where enslaved Africans were heavily concentrated. Rice accounted for 60 percent of all exports of this region. Just before the American Revolution, two colonies exported more than 69 million pounds of rice each year. Name the colonies.

What is South Carolina and Georgia

300

In 1700, this person was the first public official to "outrightly" denounce slavery when he published, The Story of Joseph. In this story, he compared slavery to the Old Testament story of Joseph whose brothers sold him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver. He wrote that “slavery is inhuman and that all men should be equal in the eyes of God”. He believed that “Man stealing” was an atrocious crime. He was an ex-Puritan judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court and had been involved in the Salem witch trials. He later apologized for his role in these trials. Name this public official and the colony where he lived.

What is Judge Samuel Sewall of Massachusetts

400

Although only a few black people lived in New England in 1700, this large city became important for slave trading. Ships with food and other products sailed to the West Indies where the goods were traded for rum. The rum then was transported to Africa to buy enslaved Africans who were brought back to the West Indies. The ships then returned home with sugar and molasses. Name the city that was called the “hub of America slave trading.”

What is Boston, Massachusetts

500

As a general rule in the slave trading business, the successful delivery of only one- third of the enslaved Africans was enough to cover the total cost of the trip and provide a sizable profit. What was the profit?

What is between 200 and 300 percent

1700s

100

Early schools for African Americans were founded and staffed by white abolitionists. In 1704 the first school for enslaved Africans in British North America was founded by a white abolitionist in New York at Trinity Church. Name him.

What is Elias Neau

200

In 1705, this colonial legislature passed a law that read: “All servants imported or brought into this country by sea or land who were not Christians in their native country shall be accounted and be slaves.” Name the colony.

What is Virginia

300

In 1712, what colony introduced the strict “slave code” written by the English for Barbados onto the mainland of North America? The code was later copied and revised by other colonies with enslaved Africans.

What is South Carolina

400

In 1713, merchants from this country successfully purchased an “asiento”, a contract to control the African slave trade. In this asiento, the merchants contracted with Spain to provide 144,000 enslaved Africans to the Spanish colonies in the Americas each year for the next 30 years. Name the country that held this asiento.

What is Great Britain

500

What were the merchants required to pay the Spanish and British royal treasuries from all their trading profits?

What is 25%