Trans-Atlantic Slave trade Flashcards
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What was the ‘trade triangle’
Trade routes operation between English ports, thé West African coast and the Caribbean
What would British ships be loaded with on the way to Africa
Guns and Textiles
What would the guns and textiles be traded for
Enslaved Africans
Where would the Slaves then work
Plantations producing raw materials such as sugar and cotton
What would the plantations then provide for working class Britons
Many jobs in factories, shipyards, transport, and coal mines
When was the salve trade abolished by parliament
1807
Who were the leading white abolitionists
Thomas Clackson and William Wilberforce
What were sent up to parliament
Petitions signed by tens of thousands of working Britons
Who was Olaudah Equiano
A black abolitionist who published an autobiography on his life in the slave trade
Who was Ignatius Sancho
A black abolitionist who wrote about the comical greed that maintained the slave trade
What else did Equiano write about
Thé 1781 Zong massacre
When was the sugar boycott
1791
