The Captives’s Experience And Slave Resistance

Question 1

Living and working conditions

Answer 1

-forced to work 12 hours a day
-subject to severe discipline, torture, cruelty
-lived in flimsy huts
-had no control over their own lifes
-only stopped at breakfast and lunch
-were whipped if they didn’t work hard enough

Question 2

Discipline

Answer 2

-flogged for any wrongdoing
-captured runaways could be hanged
-hands and feet cut off
-executed slaves who tried to rebel

Question 3

Resistance

Answer 3

-working slowly
-running away
-broke tools/machines

Question 4

Fear of revolt

Answer 4

-had no where to run too
-easily identified if they ran away
-didn’t have weapons
-very tired from the middle passage and hard labour
-harsh punishments such as whipping meant that slaves were to scared to revolt
-afraid to revolt incase they were sold off away from their families