The Triangle Trade
Name the countries/ continents in the Triangle Trade Route.
Britain
Africa
West Indies/ Caribbean/ Americas
What is one condition in a slave factory?
1000 people/lack of ventilation/diseases spread /one bucket for the toilet/males and females separated/checked by doctors
How did slaves resist their enslavement? (2 ways)
Ran Away
Worked slowly
Pretended to not understand
Broke tools
Planned rebellions
Name three port cities
Bristol/ Liverpool/ London/ Glasgow
What is an abolitionist?
A person who tired to get rid (abolish) of the slave trade
What passage travels between Britain and Africa?
Outward Passage
Name the three tribes in Africa.
Fante
Ashanti
Dahomey
Why was running away difficult on a plantation?
Bounty Hunters
Brandings
Islands did not offer a place to escape to
What port cities created jobs in shipbuilding?
Liverpool
Who were the first religious abolitionists?
The Quakers
How long does a journey take on the Middle Passage?
6-12 weeks
Name a slave factory.
Cape Coast- located in Ghana
What were two jobs on a plantation.
Field hand/domestic servant/child slave/black driver/ overseer
Name two benefits of the slave trade to Bristol.
Jobs- copper smelting and sugar refining/ architecture/ good trading relationship=high profit
What is one method used to abolish slavery?
Petitions/ speeches/ first hand evidence/ autobiography's/ logos/ sugar boycott
What manufactured goods were transported on the outward passage?
Pots/pan, guns, rum jewllery
What % of working age men were taken from the West Coast of Africa?
20%
What are two negative effects of the slave trade on the Caribbean?
Increase in violence/ Arawak's killed/ Loss of profit/ lack of skilled workers/ overreliance of sugar trade/ racism/ landscape destroyed
What was the money gained from taxes spent on in Britain?
The army (navy)
Which abolitionist was a member of parliament and campaigned using speeches and petitions?
William Wilberforce
What is the name for the type of goods transported on the Homeward Passage (sugar/tobacco/ cotton etc)?
Raw materials
Name three negative effects of the slave trade on Africa.
Famine/Racism/Loss of Culture/Businesses destroyed by cheap imports /Population reduced/Tribal Warfare
Name a successful examples of a slave rebellion
Queen Nanny and the Maroons
OR
Toussaint L'Ouveture
Who was Liverpool's richest man?
Thomas Leyland
What method did Thomas Clarkson use to abolish slavery? Give on detailed example.
Gathered first hand evidence ie Brooks ship/ shackles/ Clarkson's chest/ testimony from seamen