MISC
Why did Europeans begin buying enslaved Africans?
Indigenous laborers were dying of illness.
Needed more labor to work on plantations in the Americas.
These are the three continents that were involved in the triangular trade.
Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What time of slavery were the enslaved Africans being sold into.
Generational Slavery
This is the journey made from Africa to the Americas
Middle Passage
How were enslaved Africans prepped for slave auctions?
They would be cleaned and fed to ensure that they looked healthy
What are the intended purpose of the castles and factories?
Used as trade ports on the coast of West Africa
What was Africa's main export?
Enslaved Africans
How many enslaved Africans were sent to the Americas?
10-12 million
What were some of the acts of resistance seen on slave ships?
Group revolts
Name two crops that were being produced on plantations in the Americas.
Cotton
Sugar Cane
Rice
Tobacco
These are communities made up of individuals that fled their enslaved condition to form their own communities.
Maroon Communities
How did enslaved Africans get to the west coast of Africa to be sold into the triangular trade?
They were captured by other communities as prisons of war.
What was the impact of the slave trade on Europe?
The rich got richer
investment into industry
growth of capitalism
colonization of Africa
What was the punishment for failure to eat?
Hot Coals
Speculum Oris used to force feed
Whipped
Why was sugar production dangerous?
Grinders that could result in lost limbs Long hours led to exhaustion Strenuous labor
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
Enslaved African who was kidnapped from his home with his sister and was sent to the Americas. He wrote of his experiences.
What is the gun-slave cycle?
The theory that advancements in European gunpowder technology played a key factor in growing the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What was the impact of the slave trade on Africa?
Decrease in population
loss of culture
colonization by Europeans
Who was the British surgeon who wrote of the conditions onboard slave ships?
Alexander Falconbridge
What is seasoning?
The process of preparing a newly bought enslaved person for life on a new plantation.
About how many enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage?
About 2 million
What were some of the exports coming out of Europe?
Manufactured Goods
Rum
Guns
Gunpowder
Iron
When did the last enslaved person get transported in the slave trade?
1861
Successful slave ship revolt that resulted the captives being able to go back home.
What is a lasting impact of slavery?
Europeans needing justification for their treatment of Africans led to the idea that Africans were biologically inferior. These ideas were felt long after the end of the slave trade and the abolishment of slavery.
Slave labor helped build the US but they did not receive the same credit for the work they did