Transatlantic slavery

Question 1

How many africans were enslaved and sent to America by force

Answer 1

12.5m

Question 2

HOW many enslaved africans arrived in America

Answer 2

10 MILLION

Question 3

How many Africans dies on the root to America

Answer 3

2.5 m

Question 4

What word means personal possession

Answer 4

chattel

Question 5

What word means less than human

Answer 5

dehumanisation

Question 6

What sea animal followed the sips while transporting slaves

Answer 6

SHARKS

Question 7

which European countries did European first traded enslaved africans

Answer 7

Portugal and spain

Question 8

What type of slavery did Europeans establish in the New World?

Answer 8

chattel slavery

Question 9

. Which European countries became the leading powers in the New World in the seventeenth century?

Answer 9

England and France

Question 10

What was the name for European workers who were bound to their masters by a legal contract for a number of years?

Answer 10

Indentured servants

Question 11

Which product became far more popular with European elites in the seventeenth century, increasing demand for labour in the New World?

Answer 11

sugar

Question 12

What was the name of the 1661 law that made it legal for Europeans to punish, attack or even kill enslaved Africans?

Answer 12

1661 Barbados Slave Code

Question 13

What common identity did English, Irish and Scottish indentured servants develop in the New World?

Answer 13

white

Question 14

14. What common identity did diverse groups of Africans develop in the New World?

Answer 14

black

Question 15

Until when did many slave codes remain in place?

Answer 15

Mid-nineteenth century

Question 16

What was the name of the Igbo person who was enslaved and later wrote about his experiences?

Answer 16

Olaudah Equiano

Question 17

Give three examples of European manufactured goods that were traded in Africa.

Answer 17

Metal pots and pans, guns and gunpowder, and brass ornaments

Question 18

What name was given to the trade system between Europe, Africa and the New World?

Answer 18

Triangular trade

Question 19

How were enslaved Africans forced to travel to the coast?

Answer 19

walking

Question 20

. What is the name for a group of enslaved people who have been linked together to be transported?

Answer 20

coffee

Question 21

What were the European trading settlements on the African coast called?

Answer 21

factory

Question 22

What were the prisons on the African coast called?

Answer 22

Barracoons’

Question 23

What were the most common forms of resistance to enslavement?

Answer 23

Running away and refusing to eat9

Question 24

What did slaving captains force many enslaved people to do to move about?

Answer 24

‘dancing’

Question 25

What was the name of the slave ship where the captain threw 132 enslaved people overboard?

Answer 25

The Zong

Question 26

11. How did enslaved people begin referring to each other on the slave ship?

Answer 26

‘shipmate’

Question 27

What was the name of the instrument that was used to force hunger strikers to eat?

Answer 27

Speculum oris

Question 28

What did some enslaved people do when they lost the will to live?

Answer 28

sucide

Question 29

What did some West Africans believe would happen to them after death?

Answer 29

going home’

Question 30

What caused some slave ships to go missing at sea?

Answer 30

revolts

Question 31

What happened to many enslaved people within the first few months on the plantation?

Answer 31

Died of disease or suicide

Question 32

What was the ratio of enslaved people to white colonists in many Caribbean territories in the 18th century?

Answer 32

ten to one

Question 33

What were some of the punishments commonly used on enslaved people?

Answer 33

Nose slit, losing a limb, being whipped and put in stocks

Question 34

Who sometimes resisted their situation and poisoned their master or mistress, wasted time by pretending not to understand instructions, broke valuable tools and damaged machines?

Answer 34

ENSLAVED PEOPLE

Question 35

Which instrument did white people fear enslaved people using?

Answer 35

drums

Question 36

What did enslaved people organise when they had a few days’ holiday?

Answer 36

large festivals

Question 37

Where was the first Slave Society?

Answer 37

BARBADOS

Question 38

What was the most important mark of status in colonial Barbados?

Answer 38

Land ownership esp. sugar plantations

Question 39

What name was given to white people like shopkeepers, carpenters, and teachers?

Answer 39

Lesser / Poor whites

Question 40

What group of enslaved people were valued more highly by their owners and had prestige among their fellow slaves?

Answer 40

Skilled slaves e.g. rangers

Question 41

Which group of slaves served whites in the grand plantation houses?

Answer 41

domestic slaves

Question 42

Which group of slaves were not likely to be able to develop relationships with white people that could lead to freedom or privileges?

Answer 42

field slaves

Question 43

Who were the first independent black people in the Caribbean?

Answer 43

The Maroons

Question 44

Which country became independent in 1804, inspiring slave revolts elsewhere?

Answer 44

Haiti

Question 45

What was the name of the 1816 slave rebellion in Barbados?

Answer 45

Bussa's rebellion