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Chapter 8: Facing Slavery

Vocabulary

Question: The capturing, transporting, and selling of people.
Answer: Slave trade

Question: The voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean
Answer: Middle Passage

Question: The exchange of goods and slaves between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa
Answer: Triangular trade

Question: The person who was in charge of the work of slaves on a plantation
Answer: Overseer

Question: A public sale where slaves were sold to the highest bidder
Answer: Slave auction

Slave Trade in West Africa

Question: What was one of the most important aspects of West African life in the 1500s?
Answer: Their families and ancestors

Question: True or False:  All West Africans spoke the same language.
Answer: False

Question: True or False:  Most West Africans in the 1500s lived in freedom.
Answer: True

Question: Name 4 items that Europeans traded for slaves.
Answer: Cloth, salt, rum, and guns

Question: Daily Double:  Name 3 ways that West Africans responded to the slave trade.
Answer: 1) Some refused to take part in the slave trade.
2) Some traded slaves outside their village or nation.
3) Some traded people who already slaves or prisoners.


The Middle Passage

Question: How long was the trip from Africa to the Americas?
Answer: 6 to 12 weeks

Question: True or False:  Enslaved Africans were packed closely together on slave ships


Answer: True

Question: True or False:  Enslaved Africans were allowed to exercise and move around the ship every day.
Answer: False

Question: DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3 ways Africans responded to their treatment during the Middle Passage.
Answer: 1. Some tried to kill themselves by refusing to eat or jumping overboard
2. Some tried to revolt against the crew.
3. Many tried to maintain their energy and survive the journey.


Question: True or false: Most slave revolts on ships were successful
Answer: FALSE

Arrival in America

Question: When enslaved Africans arrived in America, what was the first thing that happened to them?
Answer: They were sold to white plantation owners at slave auctions or scrambles.

Question: Why did some slaves pretend not to understand what they were told to do?
Answer: It was their way of resisting.

Question: Which type of slave had the hardest life?
Answer: Field workers

Question: What did slaves to do cope with their hard lives and keep hope alive?
Answer: They sang spiritual songs.

Question: DAILY DOUBLE: Name 3 ways how plantation slaves responded to their new lives in America.
Answer: 1) Some tried to run away, but most were caught and punished.
2) Some resisted in secret by playing sick, breaking tools, or setting buildings on fire.
3) Many worked hard and hoped they would get better treatment.


Miscellaneous

Question: In his autobiography, what did Frederick Douglas write about?
Answer: His life in slavery, and how slaves had to work in all types of weather.

Question: Why did some slaves work extra hard on the plantations?
Answer: They hoped their masters would make them house servants.

Question: What were the benefits of being a house servant instead of a plantation slave?  Name 3.
Answer: 1. They ate leftovers from the master's table
2. They wore the family's old clothing
3. They were taught a skill, such as carpentry or weaving
4. Some earned extra money for extra work on Sundays or holidays


Question: Why did many enslaved Africans get sores and serious illnesses during the middle passage voyage?
Answer: Because the floors were made of wood, and they were packed so close together and rarely able to move.

Question: Where were most slaves in the West Indies and North America put to work?
Answer: Sugar and tobacco plantations