General Information
This is the denomination which the slaves used in the colonies were.
The number of slaves (increased, decreased) from the 1600s to 1700s.
What is Africa?
What is increased?
This is where slaves were working before they began work in the American colonies.
This is what those slaves did in places such as Jamaica and Barbados.
What are the West Indies?
What is work in sugar fields?
This is the definition of the Middle Passage.
What is the name for the voyage that brought Africans to the West Indies and North America?
This is where 80-90% of slaves worked.
What is in the fields?
Slaves were need (more, less) for farming.
What is less?
This is how long slaves worked for.
What is for their whole life, usually starting at age 12?
This is the definition for the Triangle Trade.
What is a transatlantic three stop trading method that spanned much of the world and carried various goods?
The Middle Passage was considered to be this part of the Triangle Trade.
What is the second step where slaves were picked up in Africa and transported to the West Indies?
This is the difference between slaves who worked on large plantations and those who worked on small fields.
What is on a plantation a slave would work under their white master and his field managers, but on a small field the slaves would work alongside thier master?
Slaves had (more, less) rights than those in the south.
These are some things that they could do.
What is more?
What is they could sue and be sued as well as appeal in courts?
This is why slaves struggled to adapt to life in America.
What is they spoke many different languages because they came from all over the continent of Africa?
This is the first stop in the Triangle Trade.
What is merchants carried rum and other goods to Africa?
This is the percentage of slaves which did not survive the trip.
What is 20%?
The other 10-20% of slaves were called this.
They did these chores.
What are domestic slaves?
What is they cooked, cleaned, and raised children?
These are some ways in which life for a slave in the north was unfair.
What is they were treated harshly, could not have weapons, and were not protected from cruelty from their masters?
This is how the slaves were treated by the colonists.
What is the colonists made them think that the African race was inferior to the whites. The slaves were also taught to endure the harsh treatment of their masters and put up with the weather?
This is the second stop in the Triangle Trade.
What is goods were traded for enslaved people and then these people were brought to the West Indies where they were traded for sugar and molasses?
These are the conditions of the Middle Passage.
What are...
- branded for identification
- packed into tight cabins on the ship
- victims of whipping and beating
- hit by horrible diseases
- many commited suicide
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This is how artisan slaves such as carpenter, bricklayers, and blacksmiths were used.
What is they were rented out when they were needed?
This is the rebellion in 1712.
What is an uprising of slaves that happened in New York that ended up with the execution of 21 people?
This is how the colonists came to using slaves.
What is they tried to enslave Native Americans like the Spanish, but the Natives were reluctant to learn English and they knew the land too well and could escape. They then tried to use indentured servants but as the demand for these servants went up, so did the price?
This is the final step in the Triangle Trade route.
What is the sugar and molasses is shipped to the colonies where it is converted to rum?
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This is how courts viewed the relationship between a slave and their master.
What is masters were not punished for harming their slaves in whippings or beatings? The masters were not even considered murders when they killed their slaves.
This is the rebellion in 1741.
What is a series of mysterious fires which led New Yorkers to believe another uprising was coming so they decided to burn 13 people alive and hang another 18 as an example?