Chapter 8 - Facing Slavery

Question 1

Enslaved Africans

Answer 1

People from who Africa who were forced to give up their freedom and spend their lives obeying and working for their owners or masters.

Question 2

Dilemma

Answer 2

Situations in which a person is forced to make a choice, even though there is no good choice to make.

Question 3

Middle Passage

Answer 3

The voyage of slave traders and enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the Americans.

Question 4

Plantations

Answer 4

A usually large area of privately owned land where crops were grown with the labor of workers or slaves who lived on the land.

Question 5

Americas

Answer 5

The continents of North and South America.

Question 6

Slave auction

Answer 6

A sale in which slaves were sold to buyers who offered prices for them.

Question 7

Overseer

Answer 7

A person who was put in charge of the work of slaves. The overseer had much power over them.