Triangular trade 1-4

Question 1

What were the impacts on britian for the transatlantic slave trade

Answer 1

Tax, direct jobs, banking and insurance, indirect jobs, development and expansion if docs and major port towns becoming more developed

Question 2

How were slaves captured

Answer 2

Kidnapped by Europeans, being given by tribes after they committed crimes and kidnapping from enemy tribes

Question 3

What were the slave factories like

Answer 3

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

Question 4

What was the impact on African societies

Answer 4

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