7.3 Slavery - Q -

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AGE 7. The Time of Wigs and Revolutions

7.3  Slavery

Practise Questions

names group members
(first & last name)

1. Questions about the video "The Atlantic Slave Trade"

a) What crops were grown in the Americas that were labor-intensive and helped lead to the slave trade?

1. Corn, beans, and squash
2. Carrots, beans, and peas
3. Sugar cane, tobacco, and cotton
4. Corn, tobacco, and flax

1b) Tribalism in Africa led to intense competition and warfare amongst tribes. Prisoners were sold into slavery and traded for manufactured goods, weapons, and rum. Which one of these goods was most valuable to tribes that looked to expand their power and influence in the region?

1. Weapons
2. Manufactured goods
3. Rum
4. None of it was helpful

1c) Once Africans boarded the slave ships for the journey to the Americas, what percentage did not survive the six to eight week voyage?

1. 10%
2. 20%
3. 50%
4. 80%

1d) In the video you hear that many captains
of slave ships were "tight packers" (at 02.47 min.).
What does that mean?
And can you explain why they were tight packers?

2. Write down a definition of slavery

3. What was the main reason for traders and settlers to
turn to the African slave trade to get workers for their plantations?

4. Judging by the place where this
ship sank, who are the people on the lifeboat?

The loss of the slaver "Luxborough Galley" in 1727, lost in the Atlantic Ocean, as part of the Triangular Trade between The Caribbean and Britain. Painting by John Cleverly the Elder, 1760

1. the crew
2. immigrants travelling to America
3. crew and slaves
4. Native Americans

5. Look at source A. Why are these slaves thrown overboard?
You can copy/paste the answer from the website text.

6a) Look at source B.
What does it tell you about slave families being sold?

1. families were kept and sold together
2. family members would be sold seperately

6b) Explain your answer to the previous question
using information from the source.
(that means you need to describe what you can see in the source)

6c) Do you think source B is a reliable source?
Explain your answer

SOURCE A. An 18th century engraving of how a slave ship was loaded.

source C

An 18th century engraving of how a slave ship was loaded.

SOURCE D - Written in 1789 by Olaudah Equiano, who was kidnapped and enslaved aged 11, but eventually bought his freedom, settled in Britain and campaigned against the slave trade.

"The airlessness and the heat in the hold, added to the number of us (crowded so each had scarcely room to turn over) almost suffocated us. We sweated heavily; the air soon became unfit to breathe, and brought on a sickness among the slaves, many of whom died. 

Our wretched situation was made worse by the rubbing of the chains, now unbearable. The 

toilet buckets were full of filth and the children often fell into them and almost drowned. The shrieks of the women and groans of the dying made the hold a place of almost inconceivable horror."

 

7a) Write down four words from source D
that support source C .

SOURCE E

From a book about Surinam written by John Stedman who was with an army sent there in 1744 to crush a slave rebellion

A planter gets out of his hammock at dawn and goes to the porch around his house where breakfast is a waiting for him. He is served by the most attractive of his young male and female slaves. After breakfast the overseer reports on which negroes deserted, died, fell sick, recovered, were caught, bought or born. 

Captured runaways or anyone who has been a slow worker, or broken any other rule, are brought up for 

punishment. Without being allowed to speak in their defence, they are hung from the beams of the porch, or a nearby tree and beaten with whips, while the master and overseer walk up and down talking.

The planter then walks or rides over part of his estate and, at ten, has another meal. He reads, plays chess or otherwise amuses himself until the heat of the day, when he goes to his hammock. 

He rises at about 3 o'clock, washes and eats another meal. At 6 o'clock the overseer returns and makes another report. There are more punishments. Then they decide on the work for the next day. 

source F

An engraving of a Surinam plantation, printed in 1820

7b) Give two examples from source E
that are supported by source F.

7c) If one source supports another, does it mean it has to be true? Explain your answer.

8. Which Enlightenment thinker inspired the movement to abolish slavery?
Write down two of his ideas to illustrate your answer.

9. The next questions are all true / false questions about the entire lesson:

a) Slavery had been around in Africa long before the arrival of the Europeans.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9b) European traders often travelled deep into the heart of
Africa to capture slaves.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9c) American plantation owners started using African slaves because there were no alternatives readily available.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9d) The African slaves were better off in the hands of the
European traders than they were in the hands of fellow Africans

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9e) During their voyage to America slaves were treated well, because they were so valuable.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9f) Slaves were very cheap to buy and therefore stave traders as well as slave owners treated their slaves very poorly.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9g) In North America slaves usually received some sort of payment, so they could eventually buy their own freedom.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9h) In the eighteenth century, the practice of slavery was still widespread in Europe.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9i) The Church preached that no Christian could own another
Christian, but allowed slavery in the colonies.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

9j) The abolitionists were able to abolish the slave trade completely in the early nineteenth century.

1. TRUE
2. FALSE

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