Transatlantic slave trade Flashcards
What were the impacts on britian for the transatlantic slave trade
Tax, direct jobs, banking and insurance, indirect jobs, development and expansion if docs and major port towns becoming more developed
How were slaves captured
Kidnapped by Europeans, being given by tribes after they committed crimes and kidnapping from enemy tribes
What were the slave factories like
They were branded with a hot iron to recognise them as a slave, they were kept underground in a cell until the ships arrived, held for months at a time, no place to dedicate so usually sat in their own wee poo and sick, fed bananas and beans and disease was very common
what were the conditions on the middle passage
Kept in cramped conditions, kept chained together, kept below deck but brought up for air and exercise, no place for bodily fluids, thin air, sexual and physical abuse, cleaned the decks and sung and dance, force fed
What was the impact on African societies
12m African taken, their whole economy was based on slave trade, tribal wars, hunger and famine, easily overthrown by Europeans, led to racism and depopulation
What type of work did slaves do on the plantations
Women with lighter skin wokred in the house, most slaves cut down the sugar cane, planting the sugar cane, boiling the sugar cane
Examples of active and passive resistance
Work slowly, broke tools and found ways to waste money and time, learning to read and write, stole food, escaped and revolting
Reasons why resistance was difficult on the plantations
Punishments, in fear the owner might treat others worse as well, slave hunters, location, division between slaves, extreme punishment
Impacts on the carribean
Established a racist attitude, became reliant on the plantations and selling their crop, native communities destroyed and used for slavery, destroyed small farms, new diseases brought from Europe and Africa that people couldn’t resist, destroyed the natural beauty
Carribean islands affected
Antigua and barbuda, Jamaica, Barbados, West Indies, st kits and Nevis and Puerto Rico
Jobs created in britian due to the slave trade
Shipbuilding, tobacco workers, gun makers, cotton mills, factory workers and carpenters
Reasons why it took so long to abolish the slave trade
It created great wealth, jobs were being created, cities across Britain benefited, fear of britian losing their place in the world the truth about the brutality was downplayed and racism
Reasons why the slave trade should be abolished
Treatment on the middle passage, the bible said to treat others with kindness and love, unfair to factory workers, make Britain look good, caused civil wars in Africa, broke several of the Ten Commandments
Prominent abolitionists or groups
Olida Equiano, John newton, William Wilberforce, Thomas Clarckson, granvilles sharp, quakers
Methods used by abolitionists
Speeches, rallies, lobbying, establishing of legal rights, meetings, evidence gathering
