Vocabulary
people were forced onto ships and brought to America to work.
Slaves
The voyage from Africa to the Americas, know as the Middle Passage, crossed this ocean.
Atlantic Ocean
The following group was taken from their home and forcibly brought to the American colonies to work.
Enslaved Africans
When enslave Africans arrived in the Americas, this is they first thing they did.
Sold to white plantation owners
What type of work might a person who was enslaved be forced to do?
The voyage that slaves ships took across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to America.
The Middle Passage
The approximate length of the trip know as the Middle Passage.
5-10 weeks
Traders came to West Africa offering what goods in exchange for slaves.
cloth, rum, guns
During the “breaking in” period, when slaves didn't understand what to do, or when they resisted, this happened to them.
Triangular Trade
A slave sale where the price was the same for each slave
Scramble
What would happen if a slave got sick on the boat ride over?
They would be thrown over board.
Enslaved Africans were forced to march hundreds of miles to the coast. If they survived the march, they were loaded onto ships for the voyage to this place.
the Americas
The person who was put in charge of the work of slaves.
The overseer
True or False? Most enslaved Africans didn't get sick on slave ships, and very few died during the trip.
False
A slave sale in which slaves are sold to buyers who bid (offered money) for them.
Auction
What is one way enslaved African resisted enslavement aboard a slave ship?
1- Refused to eat 2- Jumped overboard
One key reason why European enslaved Africans was because of this.
they wanted large numbers of workers on their plantations in the Americas
3 ways slaves resisted work on the plantations.
1- Pretend not to know what they were being asked to do 2- Pretend they were too sick to work 3- Broke tools 4- Set buildings on fire 5- Killed themselves
What happened to a lot of people on the Middle Passage.
Died or developed many serious illnesses
Person who bought Africans to enslave them.
Enslaver
How were the slaves kept together while on the ship?
West Africans in the 1500s really valued.....
Where were most people enslaved in the West Indies and North American forced to work?
The West Africans made choices about enslaving and trading people. (They were against it )What were those?
-Refused to take part in the trade
-Tried to find enslaved people outside their nations
-Traded people who were already enslaved.