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Slave Trade ⛺️🔥✨🐥☄ Flashcards

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1
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What is a slave ?

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Someone who is forced to work for another person without being paid

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What happened between the 15th and 19th century ?

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Millions of Africans were taken across the Atlantic to the Americas as slaves

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3
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What part of Africa were slaves not taken from ?

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South africaaaaa ☄

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4
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Why were people made slaves ?

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In warfare, kidnapped, committed crimes or couldn’t pay their debts

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5
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Were all slaves treated badly ?

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No - some owners treated them very well

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6
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How did equiano buy his freedom ?

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He was captured by slaves and taken to the West Indies were he eventually bought his freedom

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7
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When did human trade grow ?

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2nd half of the eighteenth century

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8
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What did slaves carry ?

A

Ivory and other goods from the interior to the east coast ( Kilwa )

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9
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Where was cheap labor needed and for what ?

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Clove plantations - Zanzibar and Pemba

French coffee and sugar plantations - Mauritius and reunion

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10
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What happened in the 1460s

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The Portuguese became important explorers and traders around the world

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11
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What did they set up ?

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Trading posts around the coast of Africa

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12
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What did they discover I the early 1500s

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Found an area growing spices that people couldn’t easily buy in Europe

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What were the spices grown ?

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Nutmeg, pepper , cloves

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What was the land called ?

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The spice islands

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15
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How long did the Portuguese control the spice trade ?

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Nearly 100 years

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16
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What spice trade did they control ?

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Between the East Indies and Europe

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17
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What did the Dutch east India company encourage ?

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The growing of tea, coffee , sugar and tobacco on the islands

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18
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How long did the trains Atlantic slave trade last ?

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+-200 years

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19
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What happened in the 15th century ?

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Portuguese sailed down the west coast of Africa

20
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What did they build ?

A

A flourishing trade in gold and ivory so there was no longer a big demand for slaves

21
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What happened in 1942

A

Christopher Columbus sailed across the Atlantic Ocean looking for a sea route to India

22
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Where did he think he reached ?

A

India

23
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Where had he actually found and what did he call it ?

A

America

The indies

24
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When did the demand for slaves increase ?

A

When European settlers began to conquer north and South America

25
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What did the colonies provide ?

A

Land that was ideal for growing crops

26
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Which crops was the land ideal for growing

A

Sugar, cotton and tobacco

27
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Which countries were taking part in the slave trade ?

A

Denmark, Sweden , Portugal, Britain , France , Spain , Holland

28
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What happened once slaves were captured ?

A

They were chained together around the neck and ankles and forced to walk to slave ports on the west coast

29
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How did slaves die ?

A

Disease or ill treatment

30
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What were they held in and until when ?

A

Barracoons until they were sold to European traders

31
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What did European traders trade for slaves ?

A

Cloth,shells,guns,alcohol and iron

32
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Why were slaves branded ?

A

So that the buyer could be sure he had what he’d paid for , to know which ones are his

33
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What was life on a slave ship like ?

A 
~ over crowded 
~ hardly any light or fresh air 
~poor food and sanitation 
~ disease spread easily - overcrowded 
~ the bad sanitation and body odor left a bad smell in the ship
34
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When did the Portuguese visit the southern tip of Africa ?

A

1487

35
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Who sailed round the cape ?

A

Bartholomeu Diaz

36
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When was the DEIC formed

A

1700s

37
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What was their goal ?

A

They wanted to gain control of the Portuguese spice trade

38
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Who did they send and what were his instructions ?

A

Jan van riebeek - to set up a refreshment station for ships sailing to the east , to build a fort and small hospital for sick sailers, to build a vegetable garden and buy sheep and cattle from the Khoikhoi

39
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When was slavery introduced to the cape ?

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1657

40
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Where did most slaves work ?

A

Farms - planting, weeding or looking after live stock

41
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What happened in 1823 ?

A

The government passed a law saying that all slaves are to be given 1 pound of meat and bread and half a pound of rice every day

42
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When was the first day of freedom for cape slaves ?

A

1 December 1838

43
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Did this mean all slaves were freed ?

A

No it just meant that no one was allowed to buy and sell new slaves

44
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What were the 2 arguments for emancipating slaves ?

A

1 - slavery was cruel and inhuman

2 - slavery was to expensive

45
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Why was slavery to expensive ?

A

It cost a lot of money to buy and keep slaves

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