Slave trade Flashcards
4 stages of the triangular trade
Overall journey
Outward Passage
Middle Passage
Homeward Passage
6 key facts about slave capture and march to the coast
Tribe v Tribe
Long Walks
Chained together
20 miles a day
Over 20% died
Exchanged for guns etc
6 key facts about the slave factories
Unhygienic
Dark
Separated families
Branded
Disease
Punishment
6 key facts about conditions on the middle passage
Chained
Cramped
Force Fed
Exercise
Sexual Abuse
Whipped
6 impacts of the slave trade on Africa
Depopulation
Disease
Lack of Development
Families Separated
Tribal Warfare
Normalisation of Racism
6 key facts about living/working conditions on the plantations
Overcrowding
Unhygienic
Weeding
Planting
Sugar Boiling
Rat Catching
6 punishments Carrie doubt on plantations
Whipping
Amputation
Sexual Abuse
Face Obstructions
Families separated
Hanging/Half Hanging
6 methods of resistance on the plantations
Working Slowly
Breaking tools
Maintaining African Culture
Pretending not to understand
Running away
Arson
6 reasons why resistance was difficult
Threat of punishment
Slave divisions
Slave hunters
Location
Worse punishments
Branded
6 impacts of the slave trade on the Caribbean
Destruction of Environment
Over-reliance on one crop
Loss of small farms
Racist ideology
Native population dies out
Stifled economy
6 impacts pf teh slave trade on Britain
Direct jobs
Indirect jobs
Development of ports
New consumer goods
Civic Buildings
Banking and FInance
6 arguments against the abolition of the slave trade
Profits
Jobs
Expensive compensation
Fear of revolt
Loss of tax revenue
MP’s invested
6 arguments for the abolition of the slave trade
Cruelty
Religion
Cheaper workers elsewhere
Unfair competition
Global image
Negative impact on industrialisation
6 prominent abolitionists/abolition groups
William Wilberforce
Granville Sharp
John Newton
Oloudah Equiano
Thomas Clarkson
Women’s groups
6 methods used by abolitionists
Lobbying MPs
Producing coins/pottery
Evidence gathering
Propaganda
Publicity
Petitions
