Slave Trade ⛺️🔥✨🐥☄

Question 1

What is a slave ?

Answer 1

Someone who is forced to work for another person without being paid

Question 2

What happened between the 15th and 19th century ?

Answer 2

Millions of Africans were taken across the Atlantic to the Americas as slaves

Question 3

What part of Africa were slaves not taken from ?

Answer 3

South africaaaaa ☄

Question 4

Why were people made slaves ?

Answer 4

In warfare, kidnapped, committed crimes or couldn’t pay their debts

Question 5

Were all slaves treated badly ?

Answer 5

No - some owners treated them very well

Question 6

How did equiano buy his freedom ?

Answer 6

He was captured by slaves and taken to the West Indies were he eventually bought his freedom

Question 7

When did human trade grow ?

Answer 7

2nd half of the eighteenth century

Question 8

What did slaves carry ?

Answer 8

Ivory and other goods from the interior to the east coast ( Kilwa )

Question 9

Where was cheap labor needed and for what ?

Answer 9

Clove plantations - Zanzibar and Pemba

French coffee and sugar plantations - Mauritius and reunion

Question 10

What happened in the 1460s

Answer 10

The Portuguese became important explorers and traders around the world

Question 11

What did they set up ?

Answer 11

Trading posts around the coast of Africa

Question 12

What did they discover I the early 1500s

Answer 12

Found an area growing spices that people couldn’t easily buy in Europe

Question 13

What were the spices grown ?

Answer 13

Nutmeg, pepper , cloves

Question 14

What was the land called ?

Answer 14

The spice islands

Question 15

How long did the Portuguese control the spice trade ?

Answer 15

Nearly 100 years

Question 16

What spice trade did they control ?

Answer 16

Between the East Indies and Europe

Question 17

What did the Dutch east India company encourage ?

Answer 17

The growing of tea, coffee , sugar and tobacco on the islands

Question 18

How long did the trains Atlantic slave trade last ?

Answer 18

+-200 years

Question 19

What happened in the 15th century ?

Answer 19

Portuguese sailed down the west coast of Africa

Question 20

What did they build ?

Answer 20

A flourishing trade in gold and ivory so there was no longer a big demand for slaves

Question 21

What happened in 1942

Answer 21

Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean looking for a sea route to India

Question 22

Where did he think he reached ?

Answer 22

India

Question 23

Where had he actually found and what did he call it ?

Answer 23

America

The indies

Question 24

When did the demand for slaves increase ?

Answer 24

When European settlers began to conquer north and South America

Question 25

What did the colonies provide ?

Answer 25

Land that was ideal for growing crops

Question 26

Which crops was the land ideal for growing

Answer 26

Sugar, cotton and tobacco

Question 27

Which countries were taking part in the slave trade ?

Answer 27

Denmark, Sweden , Portugal, Britain , France , Spain , Holland

Question 28

What happened once slaves were captured ?

Answer 28

They were chained together around the neck and ankles and forced to walk to slave ports on the west coast

Question 29

How did slaves die ?

Answer 29

Disease or ill treatment

Question 30

What were they held in and until when ?

Answer 30

Barracoons until they were sold to European traders

Question 31

What did European traders trade for slaves ?

Answer 31

Cloth,shells,guns,alcohol and iron

Question 32

Why were slaves branded ?

Answer 32

So that the buyer could be sure he had what he'd paid for , to know which ones are his

Question 33

What was life on a slave ship like ?

Answer 33

``` ~ over crowded ~ hardly any light or fresh air ~poor food and sanitation ~ disease spread easily - overcrowded ~ the bad sanitation and body odor left a bad smell in the ship ```

Question 34

When did the Portuguese visit the southern tip of Africa ?

Answer 34

1487

Question 35

Who sailed round the cape ?

Answer 35

Bartholomeu Diaz

Question 36

When was the DEIC formed

Answer 36

1700s

Question 37

What was their goal ?

Answer 37

They wanted to gain control of the Portuguese spice trade

Question 38

Who did they send and what were his instructions ?

Answer 38

Jan van riebeek - to set up a refreshment station for ships sailing to the east , to build a fort and small hospital for sick sailers, to build a vegetable garden and buy sheep and cattle from the Khoikhoi

Question 39

When was slavery introduced to the cape ?

Answer 39

1657

Question 40

Where did most slaves work ?

Answer 40

Farms - planting, weeding or looking after live stock

Question 41

What happened in 1823 ?

Answer 41

The government passed a law saying that all slaves are to be given 1 pound of meat and bread and half a pound of rice every day

Question 42

When was the first day of freedom for cape slaves ?

Answer 42

1 December 1838

Question 43

Did this mean all slaves were freed ?

Answer 43

No it just meant that no one was allowed to buy and sell new slaves

Question 44

What were the 2 arguments for emancipating slaves ?

Answer 44

1 - slavery was cruel and inhuman | 2 - slavery was to expensive

Question 45

Why was slavery to expensive ?

Answer 45

It cost a lot of money to buy and keep slaves