Becoming Enslaved
These people were kidnapped from their homes in Africa and forced into slavery.
African people / enslaved Africans?
This was the name given to the forced journey from Africa to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
Enslaved people were often sold in these after arriving in the Americas.
Auctions
This founding document spoke about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
A source created at the time of an event is called this kind of source.
Primary Source
This was the first stage before many captives were loaded onto ships: they were taken from villages and gathered near these places.
ports / coastal holding areas
More than this many Africans were forcibly taken across the Atlantic.
12.5 Million
Many enslaved people in the Southern States were forced to work on these large farms.
Plantations
The slideshow explains that many founding fathers spoke about liberty but still participated in this.
Slavery / the enslavement of Africans?
If several images or accounts support the same idea, they do this.
Corroborate
Some African traders exchanged captured people for these with European merchants.
goods/trade goods
What are the two words we use when talking about the slaves entering and exiting the ship?
Embark and Disembark
Enslaved people often worked from this time in the morning until this time in the evening.
Sunup until Sundown
This contradiction showed that the promises of liberty and equality in the new nation did not apply to everyone.
Freedom was limited and not shared with enslaved Africans?
The source asks students to judge whether an author is reliable or unreliable. This means deciding whether the source can be this.
trusted / considered reliable evidence
This term refers to a system where enslaved people were treated by law as movable property.
Chattel Slavery
The number who disembarked was lower than the number who embarked because many people experienced this during the voyage.
Death from disease, cruelty and horrific conditions
Name two kinds of work enslaved people were forced to do.
Working the land, cooking, cleaning, caring for children, making furniture, or tending animals?
Why does the source suggest that American ideas of liberty had “limits”?
Freedom and equality were not applied to everyone, especially enslaved Africans
If a primary source says “they stopped our mouths,” it most likely means this freedom was taken away.
freedom of speech / the ability to speak or protest?
Explain how people became enslaved using at least two examles
Villages, taken to ports, traded to European merchants, forced onto ships, and transported to the Americas?
Describe two conditions on the slave ships that made the journey so deadly.
Overcrowding, chaining, disease, lack of sanitation, little care, and months at sea?
Why was slavery not only physically difficult but emotionally difficult as well?
People were separated from loved ones, taken to a strange country, could not always speak English, and often could not understand other enslaved people either
Why is it important to study the contradiction between liberty and slavery in early America?
It helps us understand that although freedom was presented as a key value, not everyone was given that freedom equally?
Why is a primary source especially useful for understanding the transatlantic slave trade, even if it still has limitations?
It gives direct insight into people’s experiences and perspectives, but it may only show one viewpoint and must still be checked against other evidence?