Slavery Unit 1 Flashcards
What crop created the initial demand for slavery in the Caribbean and Western Hemisphere?
Sugar
The major European Slave trade began with what country’s exploration of Africa?
The Portuguese
What part of Africa did the majority of slaves come from?
West Africa
What part of the world were the majority of slaves exported to?
Brazil or British ports
What is Chattel Slavery and how is it different from forms of slavery that came before it?
Chattel Slavery is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children’s children are automatically enslaved.
How did the slave trade impact the future of the United States?
The slave trade impacted the future of the United States by building a foundation for the American economy and trade system. This benefited the United States because slave labor was free labor.
What country exported the most slaves?
The British, French, Portuguese
By 1836 half the US economy revolved around the production of what crop?
Cotton
Before this invention, cotton was a crop with little demand.
The cotton gin
What European country was 100% dependent on America’s cotton supply?
The British
Why were slaves a valuable but risky investment?
Because they could get sick and die or they can revolt and kill you and ur family.
Which 7 states were the wealthiest in the US by 1860? Why?
Mississippi because they had the most slaves in labor working the plantations.
Who owned slaves? How much were they worth in today’s dollars?
Rich whites owned slaves. In todays dollars slaves can range from 15,000 -30,000 depending on their health.
By 1860 had a majority slave population?
4 Million
What does Mulattoes mean?
A person of mixed white and Black ancestry, especially a person with one white and one Black parent.
In what year was slave importation banned?
1810
Charles Deslondes led what slave revolt?
German Coast Uprising
The Baptist War was fought where, and between who?
slaves in the Colony of Jamaica. and the British
What was the largest slave rebellion in the British Controlled Caribbean?
The Stono Rebellion was the largest slave revolt ever staged in the 13 colonies.
Gabriel’s Rebellion
This Slave rebellion was unique in that the leader of the rebellion was a blacksmith and made several of the weapons used in the rebellion.
Haitian Revolution
Slaves overthrew french rule and controlled government
Stono Rebellion
South Carolina. It was the largest slave rebellion in the Southern
Nat Turner Rebellion
Turner and his followers started at his master’s house and killed the entire family. They marched throughout Southampton County in Virginia, killing at least 55 people until white authorities crushed the revolt. Turner avoided capture for nearly two months before he was caught.
Maroon Communities:
A group of formerly enslaved Africans and their descendants who gained their freedom by fleeing chattel enslavement and running to the safety and cover of the remote mountains or the dense overgrown tropical terrains near the plantations.
