The Trade
This name describes the three-stage trading route used by British merchants between Europe, Africa, and the West Indies
What is the Triangular Trade?
The arrangement of captive people on board a ship where they had very little room to move
What was tight packing?
In this specific area of the sugar factory, the heat was so unbearable and the smell so foul that even the strongest slaves were limited to four-hour shifts.
What was the boiling house?
The deadly fighting that broke out between different tribes
What was 'civil war'?
The most deadly disease brought by the Europeans to the Caribbean natives.
What was smallpox?
On the "Outward Passage," ships left Britain carrying these items to exchange for people
What are manufactured goods (such as guns, cloth, and iron)?
These fortified coastal buildings were used to hold and "process" enslaved people before they were loaded onto ships
What were slave factories (or baracoons)?
This was the title given to the white official responsible for supervising work in the fields and using a whip to maintain constant labour.
Who was an overseer?
The slave trade caused a massive decrease in this, which experts estimate would have been double its size by 1850 without the trade.
What is population?
This mixed religion emerged on the island of Haiti as a blend of African traditions and French Catholicism
What is Voodoo?
These specific tropical products were loaded during the "Home Passage" to be sold for large profits in Britain
What are sugar, tobacco, and cotton? (Also coffee/rum)
Scramble
What was the name of the process at the end of an auction where unsold slaves were claimed?
Most enslaved people, including women and children, were forced to work a minimum of this many hours per day.
What was 12 hours?
Along with criminals, this group were often traded with Europeans for guns and other goods.
What were prisoners of war?
These indigenous people were the first to be enslaved in the Caribbean and were eventually driven to extinction by disease and overwork
Who were the Arawak (or Taino)?
A crop that was used in the manufacture of dyes
What was indigo?
This arch in Benin stands as a memorial to the site where millions of Africans were forced onto ships, never to see their home again.
What is the Door of No Return?
To act as a permanent deterrent and allow for easy identification of runaways, captives were often marked on their chests or shoulders using this tool.
What was a branding iron?
The name for area of the Gulf of Guinea that includes modern day Nigeria, Benin and Togo?
What was the 'Slave Coast'?
Runaway slaves who set up commumities in the mountains or swamps of the Caribbean.
Who were the maroons?
The organisation set up in 1672 to manage the British slave trade.
What was the Royal African Company?
Speculum oris
What was the name of the device used to force open the mouths of slaves who refused to eat?
These were the harsh legal frameworks introduced by fearful plantation owners that permitted the brutal punishment or execution of slaves for minor offenses.
What were the Slave Codes (or Black Codes)?
This two-word term means the long-term psychological and social result of the slave trade that still affects many African societies today
What is multi-generational trauma?
This was the name of the leader who headed the successful slave rebellion in Haiti, which terrified British plantation owners
Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?