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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 overboard2. 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 table2. 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