Slavery

Question 0

Who were the slaves sold to?

Answer 0

The plantation owners.

Question 1

How were slaves captured in Africa?

Answer 1

They were caught with a net and hit to make them not fight back.

Question 2

What did priests do to the slaves?

Answer 2

They christened them.

Question 3

Where did the slaves sleep on the boat.

Answer 3

Below the deck.

Question 4

How did the sailors maximise fear when the slaves boarded the ship?

Answer 4

They throw them roughly on board.

Question 5

Who did the sailors feed?

Answer 5

The healthy slaves.

Question 6

What happened to the unhealthy slaves?

Answer 6

They were chained to heavy steel balls and thrown to the bottom of the sea to drown.

Question 7

What did some people see the slave auctions as?

Answer 7

A day out.

Question 8

How were slaves sold?

Answer 8

They were auctioned like cattle.

Question 9

List eight things that the sailors did to prepare the salves for sale.

Answer 9

The slaves were:
Washed
Deliced
Plugged
Greased
Clothed
Dusted
Beaten 
Separated

Question 10

What is meant by the term ‘Washed’?

Answer 10

The slaves were cleaned after the horrific journey across the middle passage.

Question 11

What is meant by the term ‘Deliced’?

Answer 11

Slaves often got lice on board the ship so they had to get rid of them.

Question 12

What is meant by the term ‘Plugged’?

Answer 12

Slaves with dysentery were plugged.

Question 13

What is meant by the term ‘Greased’?

Answer 13

Slaves were greased to make them look more muscular.

Question 14

What is meant by the term ‘Clothed’?

Answer 14

Slaves were given clothes to make them look more presentable.

Question 15

What is meant by the term ‘Dusted’?

Answer 15

Slaves had their scares and other injuries filled in with a special paste.

Question 16

What is meant by the term ‘Beaten’?

Answer 16

Slaves were beaten to maintain fesr.

Question 17

What is meant by the term ‘Separated’?

Answer 17

Salves were separated into groups of about five or six.

Question 18

What is active resistance?

Answer 18

Resistance which involves physically breaking the rules. This usually involves violence.

Question 19

What is passive resistance?

Answer 19

Resistance that is a bit more laid back.

Question 20

List five examples of active resistance.

Answer 20

Poisoning the master
Setting fire to the house
Running away
Rebelling and taking weapons
Suicide
Glass in food

Question 21

List six examples of passive resistance.

Answer 21

Working slowly
Injuring plantation animals
Pretending to be mad
Slave women taunting the overseers or slave owners
Misunderstanding orders 
Faking illness.

Question 22

What was the ‘Triangular Trade’?

Answer 22

The route that the sailor took from Europe to West Africa to pick up slaves and give away guns and brandy. The sailors would them take the slaves to the Caribbean and sell them to buy cotton, sugar and tobacco. They then sailed back to Europe to sell their goods.

Question 23

What things did a field slave have to do?

Answer 23

Work from sunrise to sunset (18 hours in the harvest seasons)
Live in cramped shacks
Have Sundays off
Go hunting or fishing in spare time
In summer, didn't have to work from 12-2

Question 24

What things did a house slave have to do?

Answer 24

Cook
Clean
Dust
Had an education
Eat leftover food

Question 25

Name four famous abolitionists.

Answer 25

Grandiose Sharp
William Wilberforce
Olaudah Equiano
Josiah Wedgewood

Question 26

What did Josiah Wedgewood do?

Answer 26

Gave away free plaques about the slave trade.

Question 27

What did Granville Sharp do?

Answer 27

Defended slaves in court.

Question 28

What did William Wilberforce do?

Answer 28

He made speeches in Parliament.

Question 29

What did Olaudah Equiano do?

Answer 29

Phenomenon wrote a life story which became a best seller.