Transatlantic Slave Trade Flashcards
(20 cards)
What term describes the three-part trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Triangular Trade
What was the name of the brutal sea journey endured by enslaved Africans?
Middle Passage
Where were enslaved Africans forced to work in the Americas?
Plantations
What term refers to the system in which enslaved people were treated as property?
Chattel slavery
From which continent were most enslaved people taken during the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Africa
Which cash crops were commonly produced using enslaved labour?
Sugar, tobacco, cotton
What goods did European traders often exchange for enslaved Africans?
Guns and alcohol
Which two British cities grew wealthy from the slave trade?
Liverpool and Bristol
Who was a formerly enslaved man whose autobiography exposed the horrors of slavery?
Olaudah Equiano
What English company was involved in trading enslaved Africans from 1660?
Royal African Company
What did enslaved people sometimes do to oppose their treatment on plantations?
Resistance
What were three dangers faced by enslaved people on slave ships?
Diseases, overcrowding, and abuse
What was one key cause of the development of the slave trade?
European demand for labour
What ideology justified the enslavement of Africans as inferior?
Racism
What products were shipped from the Americas to Europe in the Triangular Trade?
Molasses and rum
Who helped capture and sell enslaved people to European traders?
African middlemen
What year did the first recorded enslaved Africans arrive in British North America (Virginia)?
1619
What term describes the movement to end the slave trade and slavery?
Abolition
In what year was the Transatlantic Slave Trade abolished by Britain?
1807
In what year was slavery itself abolished in the British Empire?
1833
