Transatlantic Slavery Flashcards
Who were more evolved, the slaves or the whites people before slavery?
Slaves
How many years did the timbuktuans know about rotations of planets before the Europeans?
150
Give a reason for why an African person would hand in one of their own people
Want money/job
When was the slave trade from and to?
1650-1860
How many slaves were transported?
10-15 million
Which continents were the slaves taken to?
South America
North America
Europe
What jobs did the do at the slave plantations?
Tobacco
Coffee
Cotton
What would English people trade with people in Africa for slaves?
Goods that they can’t get in Africa
What would the slave owner load into his ship when he had sold the slaves?
Cotton
Sugar
Tobacco
What is this process called?
Slave trade triangle
What did they do to slaves when they got there?
They scrubbed very hard to get the marks of them to make them look newer
Why were wounds filled with?
Tar
Who watched the slaves to make sure they were doing the right thing?
Overseer
What would a slave do to rebel every day?
Break the tool
What is domestic slavery?
Where a slave would work in the house of an owner but it was sometimes bad because they could be sexually abused
