Vocab
This word describes someone who captured or held another person for slavery.
enslaver
West African societies shared this common value.
valuing family and ancestors
Name the 3 continents involved in the triangular trade
Europe, the Americas, and West Africa
This was the name of the voyage carrying enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
Middle Passage
Most enslaved people in the West Indies and British North America worked on plantations growing these crops.
sugar and tobacco
This is a public sale where enslaved people were sold to the highest bidder.
auction
One way West Africans responded to the demand for enslaved people was by doing this instead of participating in the trade.
1. refusing to take part in the trade
2. tried to find enslaved people from other nations
3. traded people that were already enslaved
Europeans traded these goods with West Africans
cloth, rum, salt, and guns
Enslaved people on ships were often connected together with these.
chains
When enslaved people arrived in the colonies, they were sold in these types of sales.
scrambles or auctions
This person was in charge of enslaved workers and punished them if they disobeyed.
overseer
Some West Africans participated in the slave trade because they feared this might happen to them.
they might become enslaved themselves
Some West Africans responded to demand by doing this outside their own nations.
finding enslaved people outside their nations
Conditions on ships were terrible. Name one condition.
packed tightly together
little movement
rough floorboards
unbearable smell and heat
sores and sickness
ships full of rats
Some enslaved people attempted this during the Middle Passage, although most failed.
revolts or resistance against captors
the name of the trade between Europe, West Africa, and the Americas
Triangular Trade
Other than the fear of becoming enslaved themselves, why did other West Africans participate in the trade?
Their neighbors who traded enslaved people were becoming richer and more powerful.
What were the goods that were brought back to Europe from the Americas?
sugar and tobacco
What would happen to the sick enslaved people during the Middle Passage? Explain why.
They would be thrown overboard so that the sickness would not spread.
Describe the difference between an auction and a scramble.
In an auction, the sale goes to the highest bidder. In a scramble, the enslaved people are sold at a set price.
What is the Middle Passage
the second part of the triangular trade. It is when enslaved people were brought from West Africa to the West Indies and Americas.
What happened to the one West African King who refused to allow slave traders through his country
What would happen to the children of enslaved people?
They would be separated from their parents and sold separately if not already separated in Africa
What would happen to the enslaved people that tried to escape during the Middle Passage?
they were whipped or tortured
What are the ways that enslaved people, living on plantations, rebelled?
- pretend to be sick
- break tools
- pretend not to understand
- set buildings on fire