General Knowledge
What is the WKMHS motto?
What is ignorance enslaves, knowledge liberates?
Name one (1) profession in Africa?
Weaver or farmer.
Name the two (2) ways in which slaves were sold in the West Indies.
What are scramble and auction?
What method was used to capture Africans in their huts?
What is burning of huts and hitting them when they run out?
The name of the slave ship.
What is a Slaver?
Which national hero is on the $50 bill?
Who is Samuel Sharpe?
What was Inter-tribal warfare in Africa?
What is two (2) tribes at war with each other.
What were the three (3) conditions that slaves experienced on their journey in the slave ship.
What are horrible smell, defecation/urine, extreme heat and sexual assault?
Who was a Mackron?
A sick, weak or old slave that was cut from the coffle line.
What were the three (3) MAIN countries involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
What are Europe, West Africa and the West Indies?
What is the FULL name of the public bus system in Jamaica?
What is the Jamaica Urban Transit Company?
What was the plantocracy?
What was the ruling class of whites who owned slave plantations.
Name three (3) African tribes.
What are the Ibo, Ashanty, Yoruba and Coromanti tribes?
What were the two (2) ways to restrain slaves who were just kidnapped?
What are the shackle and coffle?
What was the name of the journey between West Africa and the West Indies?
What is the Middle Passage?
What is the FULL name of the currency used in England?
What is Pound Sterling?
What were the three (3) serious crimes in Africa?
What are witch-craft, murder and adultery?
Name two (2) things slaves ate while on board the ships?
What are beans, corn, porridge, salted meat?
What was a Barracoon?
A type of housing structure on the African coast.
Three (3) ways in which slaves died on the journey to the West Indies?
What are diseases, suicide and being thrown over-board.
Name the three (3) International Airports in Jamaica?
What are Sangster, Norman Manley and Ian Fleming International airports?
What are famine and drought?
What is extreme scarcity of food and water.
What are forts or factories in slavery times?
What are in-land slave markets where slaves are branded.
How and why were slaves branded?
What is with a red, hot poker to show the company that owns them.
Why were male slaves taken up on the deck of the ship?
What was to dance/exercise and entertain the white crew?