The Arrival of European Traders

Question 1

Did forms of slavery exist in Africa before the Europeans arrived

Answer 1

Yes

Question 2

What were reasons that African people were enslaved

Answer 2

Punishment for a crime, payment for a debt, prisoner of war

Question 3

African Slavery categories

Answer 3

Most enslaved people capture in battle, temporary slavery was a punishment for a crime, enslaved people could work to buy their freedom, children did not automatically become slaves

Question 4

In which centuries did the European Traders get involved in the slave trade

Answer 4

15th and 16th

Question 5

Why had European traders previously been interested in Ghana and Mali

Answer 5

Due to their sophisticated trading networks

Question 6

What is the definition of a slave

Answer 6

A slave is a person who: has no basic human rights, is dehumanised (treated as an animal or possession), is not paid for their work, owned and treated as a slave, has no or limited freedom and no chance of escape, is treated harshly, physically/emotionally/psychologically abused to force them to work

Question 7

Where did they take the enslaved WAF to

Answer 7

Europe and the Americas

Question 8

In which century did the slave trade grow

Answer 8

17th and 18th

Question 9

Why were Europeans lured to America

Answer 9

To own their own land

Question 10

Did the Europeans want to work for others

Answer 10

No

Question 11

Who was initially sent to work on the plantations

Answer 11

British Convicts

Question 12

What did the planters do to satisfy the tremendous need demand for labour

Answer 12

Purchased slaves

Question 13

What work did the slaves work in South America

Answer 13

Mines and Tobacco plantations

Question 14

Where did the slaves work in the West Indies

Answer 14

Sugar plantations

Question 15

What is a chattel slave

Answer 15

Enslaved person who is owned forever, children and grandchildren are automatically enslaved, they are treated as property to be bought and sold

Question 16

What were the principal methods of enslaving Africans

Answer 16

Warfare, raiding and kidnapping, also used traditional African methods (punishment for a crime, debt, result of drought and famine)

Question 17

What was a common sources of slaves in West Africa and Angola

Answer 17

Warfare

Question 18

Why was the majority of the enslaved people’s homeland close to the Atlantic Coast

Answer 18

The costs of moving slaves was very high

Question 19

What other reasons did the avoid enslaving people from the interior

Answer 19

Riddled with disease, natives were hostile and the land was unchartered

Question 20

What was established along the WAF coast to house captured Africans

Answer 20

Slave Forts

Question 21

What were slave forts equipped with

Answer 21

Up to a hundred guns and cannons to defend European businesses and keep competitors at bay.

Question 22

How many castles were dotted along the slave trading coast

Answer 22

80

Question 23

What two contrasts made up the Fort Design

Answer 23

Narrow windowless dungeons for the captured Africans and fine European residences

Question 24

What was the name of the largest of these forts and where is it

Answer 24

Elmina, modern day Ghana

Question 25

Who had fought over the fort

Answer 25

Portugese, Dutch and then finally the British

Question 26

Who did the Elmina house

Answer 26

400 Company Personnel, Company Director and 300 castle slaves

Question 27

Where else were enslaved Africans kept

Answer 27

Onboard ships until sufficient numbers were captured sometimes waiting for months in cramped conditions before sailing.