Slavery Flashcards
Resistance examples
Deliberately working slowly or damaging tools.
How many people fought against the forces of the French, Spanish and British?
20,000.
When did Saint-Domingue become the free republic of Haiti?
1804.
Who was the leader of the Haitian Revolution?
Toussaint Louverture.
What are maroon communities?
Formerly enslaved people who had escaped slavery and lived freely away from plantations.
How were maroon communities able to grow in Jamaica?
The maroon community in Jamaica descended from enslaved workers who had escaped from plantations and occupied the mountainous areas.
When did the movement to bring slave trade to an end start?
1770.
When did the British Parliament pass the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act?
1807.
Name two leading abolitionists.
Thomas Clarkson and Granville Sharpe.
