The Slave Trade

Question 1

What is the slave trade

Answer 1

The capturing, selling and buying of enslaved people

Question 2

When was slavery abolished

Answer 2

1807

Question 3

The main ports slaving ships sailed from

Answer 3

London
Bristol
Liverpool

Question 4

What was traded for the slaves

Answer 4

Cloth 
Hats and caps
Iron bars
Hardware 
Guns
Salt
Beads and belts

Question 5

What was one of the ports in Africa

Answer 5

Benin

Question 6

Where were the slaves sold

Answer 6

In America, or Barbados and Jamaica in the West Indies to work on plantations (mostly)

Question 7

What were the slaves bought with

Answer 7

Money
Sugar
Rum
Cotton
Tobacco

Question 8

Why may a slave trader not be able to sell his goods for a profit

Answer 8

Because there is a glut in the system

Question 9

What is the journey across the Atlantic Ocean called

Answer 9

The middle passage

Question 10

What did many people claim about the enslaved working

Answer 10

That they didn’t work hard enough because they had nothing to work for - no reward
Might as well pay someone to sido it and do it well

Question 11

What did the enslaved do to make the masters waste money

Answer 11

Replace damage
Find them when they ran
Buying new slaves because they committed or ran

Question 12

No plantations means….

Answer 12

No need for slaves = no money for the slave traders

Question 13

No profit leads to….

Answer 13

Closing down

Question 14

When did the price for sugar drop

Answer 14

1770s

Question 15

Who started the slave trade

Answer 15

Europe ( Portuguese and Spanish) in the 15th century

Question 16

When did England start trading slaves

Answer 16

In the 16th century with Sir John Harwkins

Question 17

What was the name of the second leg of the triangular trade

Answer 17

Middle passage

Question 18

What happened before the slaves were sold

Answer 18

They were cleaned

Question 19

Who was the British MP who campaigned for the end of slavery

Answer 19

Wilberforce

Question 20

Who and when was the first English trader to sell African slaves in the New world

Answer 20

John Hawkins in 1562

Question 21

What was the average number of slaves per ship

Answer 21

295

Question 22

What percentage of slave trade was carried out by Britain

Answer 22

22%

Question 23

What did Britain take to Africa

Answer 23

Weapons, clothes and trinkets

Question 24

What was taken from the third leg back to Europe

Answer 24

Sugar, rum, cotton and tobacco

Question 25

What happened when they got on the boats

Answer 25

They were stripped and men and women were put separately and men were chained women and children were usually unchained

Question 26

How did slaves rebel

Answer 26

Killed themselves
Took weapons
Freed other slaves
Ran to mountains
Fought against masters

Question 27

Why were slaves sold and brought

Answer 27

For profit and to work on plantations

Question 28

Why was the Slave trade abolished in 1807

Answer 28

Economic reasons - if you have free worker their happier
Rebelling from the slaves
Government realising it’s the right thing to do - William Wilberforce