Vocab
What is a public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder?
auction
What did Europeans offer to trade to the people of West Africa?
A. guns
B. food
C. overseers
A. guns
True or False
Most West Africans in the 1500s valued family and ancestors.
True
What is the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa?
Triangular Trade
Where were most people enslaved in the West Indies and British North America forced to work?
A. household kitchens
B. plantations
B. plantations
True or False
When Africans who had been captured and enslaved arrived in the American colonies, they were first reunited with family members.
False
What is a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him?
Overseer
How did people resist enslavement?
A. claimed to be sick
B. broke tools
A. claimed to be sick
True or False
On ships in the Middle Passage, people who were enslaved developed many serious illnesses.
True
What was the voyage of ships carrying people who had been enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean?
Middle Passage
What type of work might a person who was enslaved be forced to do?
A. field work
B. cooking
C. carpentry
D. all of the above
D. All of the Above
True or False
Some enslaved people learned to read and write, even though it was forbidden to teach enslaved people.
True
Who is someone who captured or held another person for purposes of slavery?
Enslaver