Capture of the Enslaved
Wooden clubs and guns.
What is the use of Superior Weapons?
Captured far in the interior of Africa.
What is 2000 km?
Taken from Europe by ship.
What are manufactured goods?
Another name for Leg 2.
What is the middle passage?
It took 3 to 4 months.
What is duration?
Exciting things and new places.
What is the use of trickery?
Chained together by the neck and ankles.
What is a caravan or a coffle?
The length of time something lasts.
What is duration?
Legally owned by someone else and forced into servitude.
What are slaves?
The journey from the West Indies to Europe.
Leg 3 of the triangular trade.
The burning of houses at night.
What is the element of surprise?
The slower the journey, the higher the cost.
What is speed?
The duration from Europe to Africa.
What is 2 to 6 months?
The most horror filled journey for those who survived.
What is the middle passage?
Made from molasses.
What is rum?
Prisoners of the Dahomey, Yoruba and Dida tribes.
What are tribal wars or differences?
Kept in this building on the coast.
What is a barracoon?
I stop at these ports in Africa.
What are Accra, Axim, Elmina and Bonny?
Diseases onboard the ship.
What are Dysentery, Malaria, Small pox, Tuberculosis and Yellow fever?
We left these ports in the West Indies.
What are Bridgetown, Kingston and Kingstown?
We were captured for this trade. It is the movement of goods and the enslaved between Europe, Africa and the West Indies forming a right angled triangle.
What is the Triangular Slave Trade?
Specially built ships.
What is a slaver?
Manufactured goods.
What are textiles, beads, mirrors, knives and firearms?
A chaotic system and sold to the highest bidder.
What is Scramble and Auction?
Tropical products taken from the West Indies.
What are sugar, rum, molasses and cotton?