Slavery

Question 1

What name is given to the trade between Britain, West Africa and the Americas?

Answer 1

The transatlantic slave trade

Question 2

Where did the slaves work?

Answer 2

The plantations

Question 3

What name is given to the events when slaves were sold in the Americas? And how much were they sold for.

Answer 3

Slave auction
It varied from $300 - $1600

Question 4

Name three ways how the crossing and conditions are horrific.

Answer 4

1. Little to no food.
2. Where aligned into thin lines of each slave laying down next to each other and chained down.
3. Often were around ill people and it was unhealthy.

Question 5

Who led the slave rebellion in Haiti that made it a free country

Answer 5

Tousant L’ouvature

Question 6

Name two things that the British people traded?

Answer 6

Guns and machinery was often traded to slave ports for slaves in West Africa

Question 7

What were anti-slavery campaigners known as?

Answer 7

Slave abolitionists

Question 8

What was life like on slave plantations?

Answer 8

Life was very harsh

Question 9

In which year was the slave trade banned in Britain?

Answer 9

1807

Question 10

In which year was slavery abolished in Britain?

Answer 10

1833

Question 11

How did slave abolitionists use the Brooks slave ship diagram?

Answer 11

The used it to inform people about the horrific, cramped and inhumane conditions that the slaves were living in