vocabulary
West Africa in the 1500s
the slave trade
the middle passage
slavery in America
100
the continents of north and south America
What is Americas
100
singing chants and dancing to ask the spirts to protect their village
what is worship
100
people captured in wars,servants,or found guilty of crimes,that where sold to pepole for surplies
Who are slaves?
100
a journey slaves took to get to the Americas from West Africa
What is the middle passage
100
slaves where sold to white property owners,put in auctions and put in"scrambles".
How were slaves sold when they got to the Americas?
200
usually large area of privately owend land where crops are grown where cash crops are usually grown
What is plantations
200
a place where family lives such as parents grandparents and cousins live
What is a village?
200
people who traded guns,rum,cloth,tobacco,and other goods for slaves.
who are slave traders
200
slaves starved themselves,revolted against the crew,and did what they where told.
What africans did on their journey to the Americas
200
the time slaves where given tools,homes and new names.
What is the"seasoning"period
300
a person who was put in charge of slaves
What is an overseer?
300
farmers, miners, crafts men, traders
What is west African jobs
300
capturing people from other villages and taking their suplies
What is raiding
300
before the slaves got on the ship they where burned with hot irons.
What is branding
300
planting and or picking crops
what was jobs of slaves?
400
a sale in witch slaves where sold to buyers who bid for them
What is a slave auction?
400
pepole using camels to take resorses from place to place
What is a camle caravan
400
by raiding other villages and trading crimminals and peopel they captured.
how did they colect slaves
400
creatures that would get the slaves sick and some times kill them.
What is lice flees and rats
400
poreley made,dirt floors,and a bale of straw with some rags for a bed.
What is slave homes?
500
something that arises when you are forced to make choices but you dont like the options
What is dilemmas?
500
next to the Atlantic ocean,covered by grasslands,and rain forest
What is west Africa's landscape
500
for working on large plantations of crops.
Why do European traders want slaves
500
slaves lips were burend with hot coals if refused to eat or whipped
What was punishment
500
the person that bought the slaves and owned them.
What is a slave master?
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