Life in West Africa
a. the same language
b. brain rot
c. many different languages
c. many different languages
How did African leaders become wealthy?
By trading enslaved people for goods like cloth, rum, salt, or guns.
On ships in the Middle Passage, people who were enslaved...
a. were able to move freely
b. had a lot of free space
c. revolted successfully frequently
d. developed many serious illnesses
d. developed many serious illnesses
What is it called when enslavers were allowed to buy their freedom?
self-purchase
Was in charge of the work of enslaved people and could punish them for disobeying him.
Overseer
True or False
All West Africans lived in freedom.
False
In 1400s, what country began trading goods in exchange for enslaved people?
Portugal
The enslaved people were treated with such cruelty that they thought their captors would do what to them?
Eat them!
The traders sold the West African people to ________.
White plantation owners
A public sale in which people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidders.
Auction
Most of West Africa is covered by...
Grassland or Rainforest
Slavery existed in three places for centuries before in the Americas. What was one of the three places?
Possible answers: Europe, Asia, or Africa
The Middle Passage usually took between ____ and ____ days.
21 and 90
Traders sold enslaved people at public sales called, ______.
Scrambles
Middle Passage
What was a common tradition of West Africans?
Possible answer: fabels, legends, myths, or storytelling
Europeans believed that Black Africans were...
Not fully human or meant to be enslaved
In the first part of the triangular trade, Europeans traded ______, ______, and ______ for enslaved people from Africa.
2 or more to get points
cloth, guns, and other goods
How did people resist enslavement?
Possible answers: They broke tools, they pretended not to understand English, they faked being sick
The exchange of enslaved people and goods using shipping routes across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa.
Triangular Trade
Some villagers would ______ and ______ to ask the spirits and ancestors for their religion.
Both blanks to get points
sing and dance
What did the Europeans do to the West African King who did not permit enslaved people to be moved through his country?
Tried to bribe him
or
Convinced a rival group of West Africans to go to war against him
Traders sold enslaved people in __________, __________, and __________.
2 or more to get points
South America, the West Indies, and the British colonies in North America
What type of work were enslaved people forced do?
Possible answers: field work, cooking, carpentry, gardners, personal servants, blacksmithing
Someone who captured or held another person for purposes of slavery.
Enslaver