Lesson 8 - Slavery in the Americas Flashcards
A public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder is called _____________
a slave auction
______________ is the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa
The triangular trade
A person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him is called a ____________
An overseer
it is the voyage of ships carrying enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean
The Middle Passage
Most West Africans in the 1500s valued_____________________
family and ancestors.
Europeans offer to trade guns to__________________________________
the people of West Africa.
What were the 3 choices West Africans made about enslaving and trading people.
West Africans refused to take part in this trade.
West Africans tried to find enslaved people outside their nations
West Africans traded people who were already enslaved
Most people enslaved in the West Indies and British North America were forced to work in_________________
sugar and tobacco plantations.
On ships in the Middle Passage, people who were enslaved developed
many serious illnesses.
When Africans who had been captured and enslaved arrived in the American colonies they were__________________________
sold at scrambles or auctions.
what is an overseer’s main job?
to supervise the work of people who were enslaved
People resisted enslavement by
breaking tools, pretending not to understand English, and claiming to be sick or hurt.
Types of work might a person who was enslaved be forced to do included
field work, cooking, and carpentry.
Some West Africans participated in the slave trade because they were afraid if_____________________________
they didn’t then they would become slaves.
what did Most enslaved children did not get to go with when being sold off?
their parents
