Africa And Slavery
The name of the door slaves would exit through on their way to a slave ship
Door of no Return
The was the ocean that slave ships would cross on their way from Africa to the Americas
Atlantic
The typical cost of a male slave was this
$1,000
A farm would need to have this many slaves to be called a plantation
10 or more
The number of main ways slaves resisted their owners was this
Four
Europeans would trade this item for kidnapped Africans
guns, liquor, tobacco or metal tools
awful
This is what usually happened to families at auction
Separation
The top cop on the plantation was called this
Overseer
The most common kind of slave resistance was this
Running away
This is where slaves would be taken before being placed on a ship
Slave Castles
One of the countries that participated in the slave trade was this one
Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Netherlands
To attract more people to the auction, auction owners would put these in local newspapers
Advertisements
A typical food given to enslaved people was this
cornmeal, herring, bacon
The number of successful major slave rebellions was this
One
This group of Africans would help Europeans by catching other Africans
Tribal leaders
The approximate number of people who died during the middle passage
2 million or 20%
To get enough money to be able to afford new slaves many slave owners would have to do this
Borrow
Typical number of hours enslaved people had to work everyday
12
The type of plant some slaves would use to poison their owners
Snakeroot
12.5 million (25-40%)
The number of successful slave ship rebellions
One
After Bacon's rebellions scared the rich planters in 1676, Governor Berkeley created new racist laws in Virginia that were designed to do break apart this between white and black servants
Unity
Name of the system that forced slaves to continuously work harder every week
Pushing System
The method used by Nat Turner to communicate his rebellion plans to other slaves
Preaching/sermons