Sugar
What was the most important crop grown in the Caribbean?
Arawak
What was the name of the native Caribbean people?
Overseer
Who was responsible for watching over slaves while they worked?
Slave Forts/Factories
Where were slaves held whilst waiting to board the boat?
The concentration on sugar production
What caused lasting damage to the Caribbean economy (particularly Jamaica?)
18 hours a day
How long did slaves often work during harvest?
Dysentery, Yellow Fever and Scurvy
Which diseases were common on the middle passage?
London, Bristol, Liverpool
What were the 3 main port cities involved in the Slave Trade?
Slave Codes
What was the name for brutal laws allowing owners to punish and even kill slaves?
Refuse slaves
What were slaves called that were not bought at auction and left by the quayside?
In which Scottish town was sugar refining an important industry?
Language barrier
What was one reason slaves found it difficult to communicate, and therefore resist, on the plantations?
Famine
What occurred in Africa due to there not being enough fit, healthy people to work the land?
University of Glasgow
In 2019, which British University said that it would pay millions in reparations due to its links with the Slave Trade?
Slaves were branded
What made successfully escaping difficult for slaves?