The Plantation System
This term refers to the agricultural, industrial, and commercial network of people and processes that profited from slavery.
What is the Plantation System?
This term describes the terrifying middle leg of a newly enslaved person’s journey across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
European powers initially tried to use this group for labor before turning to enslaved Africans.
What are Indigenous Peoples (or Native Americans)?
This European country dominated the slave trade from the mid-15th to the mid-17th centuries.
What is Portugal?
These individuals and groups were involved in the plantation system (name at least 4)
What are overseers, enslavers, enslaved people, militaries/militias, banks, consumers, merchants?
This is the approximate number of Africans who were captured and enslaved by Atlantic traders between 1500 and 1870.
What is Twelve and a half million (12.5 million) Africans?
These laborers signed contracts to work for 4 to 7 years in exchange for travel to the Americas.
What are indentured servants?
In the 15th century, European companies first traveled to Africa in search of ivory, pepper, wood, and especially this metal for their currency.
What is Gold?
Name three of the major cash crops produced by enslaved labor between the 16th and 19th centuries.
What are tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, sugar, or coffee?
Roughly this many people died during the ocean voyage due to horrific conditions and brutal treatment.
What is over one and a half million (1.5 million) people?
Europeans created this social "marker" because, unlike religion, it was a visual difference that could not be changed.
What is race?
The Spanish first colonized Jamaica, but then this country colonized Jamaica.
What is Britain?
As the population of enslaved people increased in Saint Domingue, so did this.
What is GDP (Gross Domestic Product)?
Enslaved people represented roughly 75 percent of the people who crossed the Atlantic.
What is the 18th Century/1700s?
This ideology was created by Europeans to justify racial slavery, designating white people as superior and black people as inferior.
What is white supremacy?
African leaders often traded captives for these specific items to gain a competitive edge over regional rivals (Identify at least 3).
What are firearms, swords, horses, and bars of iron?
The Plantation System can be best represented by these S.P.I.C.E. categories (identify three).
What are Economic, Social Structure, Interaction with the environment?
On average, the horrific transatlantic voyage lasted for this amount of time.
What is 2 months?
Europeans used this religious doctrine to argue that their conquest was "righteous" and that prisoners of war could be enslaved.
What is the "just war" doctrine?
Major slave ports where people were resold into smaller markets were known by this French term.
What are Entrepôts?