What is the name of the journey of the slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean?
100
West Africa, mostly present-day Ghana and Nigeria.
What is the part of Africa from where most slaves came?
100
A large farm very much like a village where often hundreds of people lived and worked.
What is a plantation?
100
From sunrise to sundown and if there was a full moon at night too.
What is how long did the field slaves in the south work?
100
These people were opposed to slavery and fought to end it.
Who were the abolitionists?
200
The Triangular Trade
What term describes the exchange of slaves and goods among European, African, and American countries?
200
guns, salt, cloth, and other goods.
What are some of the things for which slaves were traded?
200
Rules that were designed to keep slaves under the control of the planters.
What are the slave codes?
200
A signal to meet secretly after work to learn to how to read or even an escape.
What is one purpose of the songs sung by slaves.
200
The "Liberator."
What is the title of a newspaper that was opposed to slavery?
300
scrambles
What are public sales of slaves?
300
Captured during wars and found guilty of crimes.
What are two reasons why a person might be made a slave in West Africa?
300
The place in the center of a plantation where the planter and the planter's family lived.
What is the big house?
300
Breaking tools on purpose and pretending to not understand or to be sick.
What are some ways how slaves resisted their masters?
300
A system of secret routes that some slaves followed to gain their freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
overseer
What is the name of the person who was in charge of the work of slaves?
400
Able to own land, could become skilled workers and earn money, and their descendants would be considered free .
What is how were West African slaves different from American slaves?
400
This is what slave owners feared he most and the reason why they enacted the slave codes.
What is slave rebellion or revolt?
400
Could not practice their own religion, could not learn how to read and write, marry or own property. Their descendants were also owned by their masters.
What is how was American slavery differnt from slavery in West Africa?
400
This song contained a code that gave directions for escaping to the north.
What is "Follow the DrinkingGourd?"
500
West African dilemma.
What is the dilemma faced by West Africans to either trade slaves for guns and goods or refuse to trade and risk being attacked.
500
By trying to bribe him and by convincing a rival group to go to war against him
What is how did European traders respond to the West African King who refused to let slaves to be moved through hid country?
500
These people were not property owners, came from Europe, and were obligated to work for a particular individual for a fixed period of time.
What are indentured servants?
500
Based on skin color not on having been captured in a war or found guilty of a crime.
What is the basis of slavery in America as compared to the basis in West Africa?
500
An escaped slave who returned to the south many times in order to guide other escaped slaves to freedom who was nicknamed "Moses."