Triangular Trade
Route 2 of the Triangular Trade.
What is the Middle Passage/Route from Africa to the Americas?
Families were sold and broken apart at these places.
What are auctions?
She is the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
A person who favors the end of a practice or institution (like slavery).
What is an abolitionist?
What is a primary source?
The 4 continents involved in the Triangle Trade.
What are Europe, Africa, North America, and South America?
The two types of work that were common of enslaved people.
What are domestic and field work?
This law made passage on the Underground Railroad much more difficult as it forced all citizens to help return a runaway.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (1850)?
Large farms typically worked by enslaved persons in the south growing cash crops (cotton, tobacco, sugarcane, etc.)
What is a plantation?
This helped enslaved people communicate messages.
What is song/music?
These items were traded to African Chiefs for enslaved people.
What are manufactured goods? (weapons, luxury items, and alcohol)
Examples of daily (passive) resistance by enslaved people.
What are breaking of tools, acting sick, faking an injury, or working slow?
These are the places fugitive slaves would escape to using the Underground Railroad.
What are northern states and Canada?
The route of the Triangular Trade that transported enslaved Africans on ships to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
These were published in newspapers so that “Patterrollers” (slave catchers) would catch and return runaways.
What are slave ads?
This was sent to Europe after slaves had been traded/auctioned in the Americas.
What are cash crops? (tobacco, cotton, sugarcane)
This was the main reason that the institution of slavery lasted even after the Triangular Trade ended in 1808.
What is money/profit?
Runaway slaves would often use this to help guide their journeys.
What is the North Star?
Someone who supervises enslaved people at work; would enforce rules and punishments of the plantation and slave owner
What is an overseer?
This was used to help enslaved people find hope but also to try to keep them in place.
What is religion?
The main reason slaves were brought to the Americas.
What is labor to work the plantations?
Nat Turner was famous for what type of event/event.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion? (Slave Revolt/Rebellion)
The Underground Railroad got its name from this.
What is a runaway disappearing as if they had "went underground on a railroad"?
To be beaten with a whip or stick.
What is flog?
What is the Anti-Slavery Society?