The Logging Industry
This dye -producing tree was the major export crop from Belize before mahogany
What is logwood?
The plantation owner, attorney, overseer, and bookkeeper belonged to this group at the top of the social ladder.
What are the whites?
This empire became the largest in Western Sudan by the 15th century?
What is the Songhai Empire?
The first recorded Africans brought to the Caribbean arrived in this year.
What is 1501?
The Middle Passage typically lasted between this many weeks.
What is 6-10 weeks?
This quality of mahogany made it the chief export crop, as it was used for making furniture.
What is Hardwood?
Artisans such as carpenters, coopers, masons, and mechanics were categorised as these types of slaves.
What are skilled slaves ?
This West African region grew root crops like yams and cassava and practiced shifiting cultivation.
What is the Dense Tropical Region?
This coast produced the most enslaved Africans for the Caribbean.
What is the Lower Guinea/Slave Coast?
Slaves were forced to 'exercise' daily by doing this.
What is jumping/dancing in place?
This highly skilled worker's job was to cut down the trees and trim the branches.
What is the axeman?
This group of slaves, who worked the hardest in the hot sun, was at the very bottom of the social ladder.
What are the praedial or field slaves?
The Akan political system was led by a king and a _______ mother.
What is a Queen Mother?
Europeans believed Africans were suitable for plantation labour partly because of this climate- related belief.
What is they could withstand tropical climates?
The average mortality rate on slave ships during the 17th century.
What is 20-30%?
This happened to enslaved families for long periods of time because the mahogany extraction sites were remote and far apart.
What is separation?
The slaves, often the offspring of the planter and a female slave, generally received better treatment and less strenous jobs.
What are coloured slaves or mulattoes?
These traveling merchants of the Savannah region traded goods across West Africa.
Who were Dyula?
Warfare between African states made slavery easier because this was lacking.
What is regional solidarity?
This ship carried 133 enslaved people thrown overboard for insurance fraud.
What is the Zong?
The two reasons for the decline of this crop included a glut in the market and the European discovery of other ways to make dyes.
What is logwood ?
The praedial or field slaves were organised into three of these, based on their strength and fitness.
What are gangs?
Yoruba towns were ruled by this monarchy-style leader.
What is an Oba?
Many enslaved people came from Bantu-speaking tribes in this region.
What is the Niger to Congo region?
A main reason Europeans chose enslaved Africans instead of European indentured laborers.
What is it was cheaper; slaves worked for life?