Slavery in North America Flashcards
What goods were sold to Britain from America?
tobacco, oil, timber, furs, rice, and silk
Where were slaves to and from?
to: America from: Africa
What was solids from Britain to Africa
guns, iron, beer and cloth
What was the journey of the slaves?
the Atlantic triangle
Why did the southern colonies rely more on slaves?
many big plantations run by rich landowners so they could make a higher profit with slaves then weorkeres, other colonies didn’t have as good climate or soil for groaning plants
What was the journey like for slaves?
was awful, the slavers sewer manacled together in groups, they were beaten and abused, about 18% of them died on the journey
What was the asiento?
gave britan the right to monopoly on supply of slaves to the spainish colonies
What were the key feature of the asiento?
- Britain paid £7.5mill to buy it
- 4,800 slaves were sent to the spainish for 30 years
How did the asiento make the british rich?
more people invested in the slave trade
What happened ro the South Sea Company?
they got £9million from investors and people would sell shares and make lots of money
Why was the asiento not that profitable
smugglers sold slave and the war caused trader to drop
How much did profits drop between 1718 and 1720
from £1,100 in June to £150 in September
Loss of profits
- war, piracy and smuggling
- £9 million was invested in the South Sea Company
- smugglers sold slaves without permission
British monopoly
- 1713 Briths paid £7.5mill for asiento
- South Sea Company had monopoly
- 4,800 slaves a year of 30 years
Why was tobacco important?
slaves made it cheaper as the crops meant loads of labour and slaves could be forced to work in those conditions, some slaves could give advice
Why were slaves important of rice plantations?
kept profits high and earned more than tobacco, 1700 400,000 pounds of rice were sold, slaves had knowledge, could be grown anywhere
Impact of slaves on tobacco
1720 more slaves than indentured servants and they were 35% of the population
- the crop was very labour intensive
SLaves encouraging tobacco plantations
- helps make efficient systems with 12 slaves per gang
- gave advice on how to grow it
Consequences of slavery on tobacco plantations
- cheap labour increased exports to 80mill pounds by 1760
- a landowner with slaves could make on average £479 then without them
- provide d 55,000 labourers
Slaves encouraging rice plantations
- did ditch- digging
- taught planters how to grow the rice
- grow rice in the swamps
consequences of slaves for rice plantations
- helped earn 4x tobacco planters
- could work in more places
- 1700 400,000 lbs of rice sold abroad in 1740 ‘twas 43mill
