Impact on Africa
12 millions
How many Africans were taken captive and transported to the new world?
Sugar, Cotton, tobacco and coffee
What were the main crops that were farmed in the plantations?
Rum
What product was made out of sugar in the Caribbean?
Whipping
What was one of the most common form of punishment on the plantation?
Guns, alcohol, pots, pans and textiles
Which good were manufactured in Britain and exchanged for slaves in Africa?
The Slave Coast
What name was given to the West African coast during this period?
They replaced small farms
What was one impact of the development of PLANTATIONS in the Caribbean?
Laws to control enslaved Africans
What were Slave Codes?
Adverts in newspapers
How did slave owners try to find people who had escaped
Liverpool- shipbuilding
Bristol- 22 sugar houses
Give example of how british ports benefitted from the Slave Trade
It led to increased violence and tensions- for example with 20 millions guns traded
How did the Slave trade impact relationships between Africans groups?
Destruction of the native flora and fauna (plants and animals)
What was an ecological impact of the development of a plantation system
4 years old
At what age did children start work on a plantation?
Working slowly, pretending not to understand
Tobacco
Glasgow dominated the Trade in which product from the New World?
Name 3 social and cultural effects of the Slave trade on Africa
Arawak and Taino
What was the name of the native people of the Carribbean that got wiped out because of the implantation of British colonies?
Overseer
What was the person who managed plantation work gang called?
running away, breaking tools, organising a rebellion
What are examples of ACTIVE resistance to slavery?
Loyds of London, Barclays
Name 2 financial institutions created to provide LOANS and INSURANCE to slave merchants
Slave factories
Where were captured Africans kept before they were transported on board the ships?
It led to economic disaster if the price of the crop fell
What was one economic problem of the single crop system
One in 3 within 3 years
What proportion of enslaved African died due to the harsh conditions in the Caribbean
The Maroons
What is the name of enslaved Africans who had managed to escape their plantations and formed their own community in the mountains in Jamaica
The Royal African Company
Which company had a monopoly on the trade of enslaved people, gold and goods until 1689?