Slavery

Question 1

The slave trade

Answer 1

1. Ships from England,navigated to Afrcia with manufactured goods like clothes,weapons…
2. Manufactured goods where sold in exchange of slaves and Transported to the Americas in terrible conditions
3. In America they where exchanged for goods like tobacco,sugar…

Question 2

Conditions on the Middle Passage

Answer 2

Slave where hardly fed ,enough so that they didn’t die.
They made them exercise by forcing them to dance and jump.
There where 2 types of pack:Tight and loose,it all depended on the captain,as he only saw them as money.
Slaves where hold with chains and cuffs
Very unhygienic conditions:slaves would vomit,and do urine next to their food,or in their “beds”.
They cleaned them with salty water which caused a lot of pain to the slaves because they had wounds,but this also prevented infections
Women where raped and forced to give birth next to dead bodies,urine…

Question 3

Life in plantations

Answer 3

Slaves had a short life expectancy of 26 years old.This suggests that they worked very hard but they didn’t receive much food.In plantations they where divided in 3 groups
1-Strong men and women
2-Young boy and girls and pregnant women
3-little children and old women
This structure suggests that the group that had the hardest job such as harvesting cotton is the first one.It was very hard because the cotton spikes would have caused wound that weren’t treated appropriately,and if they didn’t do their job they got punished.
Slaves lived in clusters of small huts near plantations,they could own nothing,which meant they had no rights,if they disobeyed they got whipped.After work they wrote songs as a pass time but it also suggests they did this as a way of expressing themselves.
There where also servant slaves which lived in better conditions as they lived in the owners house.
In conclusion I think that the treatment that slaves received was miserable and that they where treated as animals,and if they died their owner would feel no pity just as if they had lost money.

Question 4

Abolition of slavery in Europe

Answer 4

Was a really important movement,where many people hot involved to stop slavery.
A sugar boycott was organised in Europe,people stopped buying sugar made by slaves.This caused a huge economical impact on plantation owners and grocers.The sugar boycott increased the recognition of the abolitionist movement.

Question 5

Important abolitionists in Europe

Answer 5

Hannah More-was an influent poet,who inspired many women to join the abolitionist movement.
Thomas Clarkson-was member of the Abolitionist committee.He said that supporting slavery was unchristian,people where very religious so they supported him.

Question 6

Abolition of slavery in Africa

Answer 6

Many slaves caused revolts in plantations and stood up against their owner to claim for their freedom

Question 7

Important abolitionists in Afrcia

Answer 7

Olaudah Equiano-he wrote his own autobiography that caused a huge impact in England as people realised the horrors of the slave trade

Question 8

Conclusion of the abolition of slavery

Answer 8

I think the methods used in Europe where more efficient than the ones used in Africa as the hot more people involved and it caused a bigger impact.I think it would have been more successful if more European men got involved because in that society men where considered more important than women and certainly more than African men,people would have taken them more seriously