Slavery Flashcards
Who were the first slave traders to transport slaves to the American
colonies from the sixteenth century?
Portuguese
What is another name that is given to the transatlantic slave trade?
The triangular trade
What was the name of the passage that took slaves from West Africa across the Atlantic Ocean for
sale in the Caribbean and North America?
Middle Passage
At least how many Africans were taken to the Americas as slaves between 1532 and 1832?
12 million
What number of the slaves were taken from Africa to the Caribbean and North America in British
ships?
2.6 million
How many Africans are thought to have died on the Middle Passage?
As many as 2 million
Which was the first British colony in the West Indies captured in 1625?
Barbados
The production of which plantation crop, with a trade that became worth £20 million a year, drove
the British slave trade?
Sugar
In 1700 how much would a slave have cost when bought from a local tribal chief in traded goods,
such as cloth, gunpowder, guns or brandy?
£3
In 1700 how much would a slave have sold for in the West Indies?
£20
What was the term given to the chained lines of slaves that marched to the West African coast to be
sold?
Coffles
What was the name of the ship on which there was a famous slave mutiny in 1839?
The Amistad
What was the name of the former slave who became Britains leading black campaigner for the
abolition of slavery and wrote a bestselling autobiography in 1789?
Olaudah Equiano
What was the name of the movement that sought to end slavery and the slave trade?
Abolitionist Movement
Who was the most well-known abolitionist who led the Committee for the Abolition of the Slave
Trade in the British parliament from 1787?
William Wilberforce
In what year did the British parliament abolish the slave trade (in Britain, but not in its Empire)?
1807
How much was spent by the British government to compensate 3,000 slave owning families when
slave-ownership was abolished in Britain colonies in 1833?
£20 million (40% of the governments annual spending and approximately £16.5 billion
today).
Which British Prime Minister expressed “deep sorrow and regret” for the slave trade in 2006?
Tony Blair
