African Economy and Social Organization in West Africa

Question 1

Shows that…

Answer 1

This will show Africa had wealth, organization and economy before slavery.

Question 2

Procurement

Answer 2

recruitment and transportation of slaves from West Africa to the United States of America.

NAMES: transatlantic slave trade, triangle trade, triangular trade

Question 3

Who was transported to the Caribbean and the Americas?

Answer 3

Slaves from West Africa

Question 4

What was transported to Europe?

Answer 4

sugar, cotton, ginger, indigo, tobacco, muscovado

Question 5

What was transported to West Africa?

Answer 5

silk, cotton, alcohol, guns, ammunition, copper cans, beads, necklaces, bricabrac, manufactured goods

Question 6

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 6

The Middle Passage was the route of sea going journeys of millions of Africans taken from their Native land, to the shores of the Caribbean and America, where they were invariably destined to an existence of institutional slavery. The journey was one of the most horrific aspects of the morally deplorable system of slavery.

The Middle Passage itself lasted roughly 80 days on ships ranging from small schooners to massive, purpose-built “slave ships.”

Question 7

Middle Passage Conditions

Answer 7

• Shackled to the person next to them
• Packed like cargo, over-packed since a fifth of the slaves were expected to die.
• They sat in their own feces, unsanitary conditions
• DEATH
  epidemics, diseases like scurvy and yellow fever, small pox…little to no ventilation.
  -DIET
  They ate rice, porridge, yams, oil and fruits to fight scurvy (deficiency in vitamin c).