(Lecture 9) The Problem of Slavery in a 'Free' Society

Question 1

What is indentured servitude?

Answer 1

form of labour where an individual is under contract to work without salary to repay a loan within a certain timeframe

Question 2

What is the middle passage?

Answer 2

forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the New World

Question 3

what is ‘free labour’?

Answer 3

labourers offer their skills, and time for a minimal amount of money or no payments

Question 4

Why is Jamestown, Virginia significant?

Answer 4

First permanent English settlement in Americas

Question 5

What is Senegambia?

Answer 5

Region the earliest Atlantic slave trade began in.
Important source of African slaves.

Question 6

What is the Windward Coast?

Answer 6

Credited with the export of a very large number of slaves in late 17th century and most of 18th

Question 7

Where was cotton mainly produced?

Answer 7

Bible Belt

Question 8

Where was sugarcane produced?

Answer 8

Southern Louisiana

Question 9

Where was Tobacco produced?

Answer 9

Tennessee, Missouri, Kentucky, NC, Virginia

Question 10

Where was rice produced?

Answer 10

East coast of Georgia, SC and a bit of NC

Question 11

What was Berkeley’s Rebellion? When?

Answer 11

1676
Virginia Settlers (Nathaniel Bacon) against Colonel William Berkeley.
Due to Berkeley refusing to drive Native Americans out of Virginia

Question 12

Is there a difference between slave and free labour?

Answer 12

yes