slaves

Question 1

when did the atlantic slave trade occur

Answer 1

late 15th to the mid 19th century
(late 1400-1807)

Question 2

what is a slave

Answer 2

someone who is someone else’s legal property and is forced to do manuel labor

Question 3

what is trade

Answer 3

when you give a country or a person something and they give you something equally valuable

Question 4

what is slave trade

Answer 4

when people sell humans to other country’s as slaves

Question 5

why did european settlers in america want slaves

Answer 5

they wanted slaves to make fortunes and get new valuables form other countries. they also wanted slaves to do the work for them

Question 6

how were enslaved people sold

Answer 6

at an auction or scramble

Question 7

what is an auction

Answer 7

they would stand on a box and let people bid for them. those who were unhealthy and did not sell were left to die without food or water

Question 8

what is a scramble

Answer 8

buyers would pay the slave strader an agreed amount of money they would be given a ticket then the cage would be opened and they would rush in and get their slave