Slavery Flashcards
What was the slave trade?
It was when the Europeans went to the west of Africa to trade weapons, salt, cloth, money, etc for people.
How does the slave trade function?
They brought there people to the Americas to work in cotton, tabacco or sugar plantations. They then took those products back to Europe.
What did they bring from England (Europe) to Africa?
Voyage to trade with the Africans
What did they bring from Africa to America?
Middle passage, enslaved people taken from Africa to the Americas (sold them)
What did they bring from America to England (Europe)?
They trade: cotton, tabacco, sugar (was taken back)
Why did the slave triangle started?
Because they needed more recourses and money
What were conditions in the middle Passage?
They were cramped (squashed), the women and children were abused, a lot of diseases were spread.
What was life in the plantations?
(Middle passage was worst) They were in really bad conditions, it was very harsh, diseases, 26 years-life, body chopped off, 23% babies per 10 days
What were some examples of how people resisted and fought back against slavery? (Rebelling)
Breaking tools, violence, keeping their culture (couldn’t do), escape by jumping off (they would always die).
Reasons why slavery ended are…
It was abolished by boycott, black abolitionist, William Wilberforce-he was part of the governments as that was part why slavery ended), Thomas Clarkson- he interviewed over 20,000 slaves and educated the public.
What happened in slavery?
The slave trade lasted from the 1400s to late 1800s. This triangle started in Portugal and then spread across Europe. The triangle went from Europe to West Africa to the Americas Once Europe got to West Africa, Europe offered weapons, money, rum, cloth, silk and other goods that the leaders of Africa couldn’t say no to, Europe gave these things in exchange for enslaved people. Who were treated like objects instead of people. The enslaved people were then taken in a boat through the middle passage, they had no choice and no pay for this. Around 12 to 15 million people were taken on this voyage and 20% of them were never able to see land again because they died on this voyage. The survivors suffered from starvation, below deck, it was cramped and nobody could do so much as move, diseases were spread, the women and children were abused on board and the men were forced to dance to stay fit so the captain could sell the enslaved people more easily and get more money. Once people got to the Americas they were sold and taken to plantations where they worked making tobacco, sugar and cotton. They were treated horribly and they couldn’t do anything. Some people could buy their way out but others were poor and couldn’t.
