Triangular Trade
The most important crop grown in the Caribbean
What is sugar?
Native people of the Caribbean
Who were the Arawaks?
The man responsible for watching over slaves while they worked
Who was the overseer?
Places where enslaved Africans were held whilst waiting to board the boats
What were slave factories?
The city that dominated finance and banking during the period of the Slave Trade
What is London?
The number of hours per day enslaved Africans often had to work during harvest
What is 18 hours?
The diseases most common on the middle passage
What are Dysentery, Yellow Fever and Scurvy?
The 3 main port cities involved in the Slave Trade
What are Bristol, Liverpool and London?
The name for brutal laws allowing owners to punish and even kill slaves
What are slave codes?
The name for enslaved Africans that were not bought at auction and left by the quayside
What are refuse slaves?
The Scottish town where sugar refining was an important industry
What is Greenock?
The main reason Africans found it difficult to communicate, and therefore resist, on the middle passage?
What is a language barrier?
The problem that occurred in Africa due to there not being enough fit, healthy people to work the land
What is famine?
The British University that said, in 2019, it would pay millions in reparations due to its links with the Slave Trade
What is Glasgow University?
The thing that was done to an African so it was easy to tell which plantation they belonged to
What is branding?