Slavery

Question 1

What is the name given to the trade between Britain, West Africa and the Americas

Answer 1

The triangular trade

Question 2

Name three manufactured goods that Britain traded as part of the slave trade

Answer 2

Guns, pottery, textiles

Question 3

What is the name given to the part of the trade where slaves were taken across the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 3

The middle passage

Question 4

Describe three ways in which conditions for slaves were horrific

Answer 4

1: severe punishments
2: lack of freedom/ extreme working hours
3: they had no legal rights

Question 5

What is the name given to the events in which slaves were sold in the Americas

Answer 5

Slave auctions

Question 6

What is name of the event where slaves were a fixed price and farmers grabbed the slaves

Answer 6

A scramble

Question 7

What is the name given to the large farms where slaves worked in the Americas

Answer 7

Plantations

Question 8

What is the name given to the process where slaves had their owners initials burned into their skin

Answer 8

Branding

Question 9

Name two places where there were rebellions led by slaves

Answer 9

Haiti 🇭🇹 , Jamaica 🇯🇲

Question 10

Name three crops the slaves helped to grow in the Americas

Answer 10

Tobacco, cotton, sugar

Question 11

Name two slaves or former slaves who led rebellions against slavery

Answer 11

Toussiant L’Ouverture
Samuel Sharp

Question 12

Name the former slave who travelled across Britain and wrote a book

Answer 12

Mary Prince

Question 13

In which year did Britain ban the slave trade

Answer 13

1807

Question 14

In which year did Britain ban the ownership of slaves

Answer 14

1833

Question 15

How much compensation was payed to slave owners when slavery was banned

Answer 15

£20 million

Question 16

State three arguments in favour of continuing the slave trade

Answer 16

1: it has led Britain to be very wealthy
2: the Bible says nothing bad about the slave trade and religious people owned slaves
3:many slaves were criminals that would have otherwise been punished

Question 17

What were the anti slavery campaigners known as

Answer 17

Abolitionists

Question 18

Which anti slavery campaigner travelled across Britain collecting slave related artefacts

Answer 18

Thomas Clarkson

Question 19

Name the ship used as evidence of the horrific conditions aboard slave ships

Answer 19

The Brookes

Question 20

Name the campaigner who boycotted sugar to end slavery

Answer 20

Elizabeth Heyrick