West Africa
Tribes in West Africa would trade people - sometimes their own or slaves captured from other tribes - for what?
What are guns?
The Middle Passage was the voyage of slave ships across which ocean?
What is Atlantic?
The exchange of captured people for goods.
Once in the Colonies, slaves would be sold at these.
What are slave auctions?
Though some ran away and protested, most slaves worked hard in hopes of this.
What is better treatment and jobs, such as skilled laborer, gardeners, and in-house servant jobs?
West Africa was made up of many different tribes who all had different this.
What are languages and cultures?
The Middle Passage refers to trade between whom?
What is West Africa, South America, the West Indies, Europe, and the British Colonies?
A person who was in charge of the work of slaves and could punish them for disobedience.
What is an overseer?
As a form of protest, slaves often did this to their overseers.
What is pretend to not understand the language or what they were being instructed to do?
Slaves were often sold to work on plantations that produced these 3 things.
What are cotton, sugar, and rice?
West Africa often traded these valuable goods with other countries.
What are gold and ivory?
Slaves were often chained together in tight spaces and the ships were often full of these.
What are lice, fleas, and rats?
A public sale in which slaves were sold to the highest bidders.
What is a slave auction?
The average slave worked on a plantation and could expect to work this long in a day.
What is 16 hours?
Slaves combined these in their religious practices.
What are African traditions and Christian practices?
The reason West African tribes traded slaves for guns.
What is the protection and safety that guns could provide? Also accepted: to raid neighboring villages
As disease, starvation, and unhygienic quarters led to slaves dying, those in charge of the ships did this with the dead bodies, leading sharks to often follow the ships.
A western African storyteller who recites the history of a tribe or family.
What is a griot?
As a slave, one often hoped for this kind of job that had less hours and more comfort.
What is a job within the slaver's house?
Slaves used songs for many things, including as a source of strength and comfort, to provide entertainment, and for those more a little more daring, this.
What is to carry secret messages?
Prior to the Europeans, West African tribes would sell slaves they captured from other tribes to traders of what background?
What is Arab?
Though nobody knows for sure, it is estimated that this many Africans made the Middle Passage.
What is 10-12 million?
A type of religious song that developed Among enslaved Africans and that expressed deep emotion.
What is spiritual?
Plantation owners allowed slaves to participate in this activity on Sundays as a way to try to keep them happy.
What is attend church?
As a non-slave owner in the North, name some things you could purchase that had nothing to do with slavery.
What is nothing?