The Slave Trade

Question 1

What is a slave

Answer 1

Slavery is a system in which people are owned by another person as slaves. Those people would have complete control over the slaves lives , freedom and fortune

Question 2

Why is slavery wrong

Answer 2

• can lead to racism
• takes away freedom
• takes away rights
• emotionally scared
• could lead to death
• one sided

Question 3

Why did business make people except the slave trade

Answer 3

The amount of money the people were making e.g. the profits made from the trade triangle

Question 4

Why did moral make people except the slave trade

Answer 4

It was said that god excepted slavery , Africans are ‘not human’

Question 5

Why did culture make people except the slave trade

Answer 5

White slaves owners believed slaves could not feel emotion , they do not look like them so therefore can’t be civilised

Question 6

What happened in stage 1 of the slave triangle

Answer 6

Ships left London , Bristol and Liverpool filed with gunpowder , felt hats , silk , sail cloth, beads , candles ,sugar , tobacco and beer

Question 7

What happened in stage 2 of the slave triangle

Answer 7

African kings captured the slaves and held them on the coast where they would exchange the slaves for goods and were shipped across the Atlantic

Question 8

What happened in stage 3 of the slave triangle

Answer 8

In the West Indies the slaves were sold and cotton , sugar , spices , rum , tobacco and coffee were brought back to England to get sold