African Capture
This continent is where the majority of enslaved people were taken from.
What is Africa?
The name of the route that ships took between Africa and America.
What is the Middle Passage?
The first enslaved people in the Americas.
Who are Native Americans/Indigenous People?
What enslaved people did to fight back against their forced enslavement.
What is resisting?
What it means to be "shackled."
What is being chained up?
This is a way that Europeans say Africans are captured to be sold into slavery.
What is: selling themselves/children/neighbors, committing crimes, being a prisoner of war, being tricked?
Red hot coals were placed upon enslaved people's lips if they refused to do this.
What is eating?
The reason why many enslaved children barely knew their own mothers.
What is family separation?
A type of resistance that involved running away from a master's property.
What is escaping?
What it means to be "seized."
What is to suddenly take hold of something?
Taken by force - how Olaudah Equiano was captured to be sold into slavery.
What is kidnapping? ("Seizing" is also acceptable)
The reason why slave traders didn't want enslaved people to die.
What is losing money?
A skill that slave masters thought was dangerous for enslaved people to do.
What is learning to read and write?
This type of resistance involves physically standing up for yourself.
What is rebellion/physical violence?
What "distemper" means.
What is to be sick?
This is a reason why Europeans thought it was okay to enslave Africans.
What is:
Africans gave away their freedom when they committed a crime - OR
Africans are better off on American plantations - OR
Slavery makes the plantations much better - OR
Prisoners of war would be killed if not enslaved?
This was a common disease aboard slave ships that caused intense stomach problems.
What is the White Flux?
A legal and economic system where enslaved people are viewed as property.
What is Chattel Slavery?
A form of resistance enslaved people practiced aboard slave ships.
What is jumping overboard OR not eating?
What it means to "take sustenance."
What is eating?
Europeans blame this group of people for the amount of Africans that get sold into slavery.
Who are Africans?
The first thing that happens to enslaved people when they first board a slave ship.
What is being fastened/chained?
This is where enslaved people with lighter skin would typically work.
Where is the home/what is domestic work?
A form of resistance that involves gaining knowledge that is usually restricted for enslaved people.
What is learning/education/reading and writing?
A vocabulary word meaning "tricked or deceived."
Ex. when there, the person so [tricked or deceived], not understanding the language, is old and deliver'd up as a slave
What is "deluded?"