Transatlantic Slave Trade

• When did the Transatlantic Slave Trade (TST) start?

  1564
• When did the TST end?


  1807
• How long did the TST last?

  243 years
• What is 'chattel' slavery?


  When the title of 'slave' is passed onto your descendants
• What is another name for the TST?

  The Triangle Trade
• What went from Europe to West Africa?

  Manufactured goods - cloth, iron, guns
• What was the link between West Africa and the Americas called?

  The Middle Passage
• What went from the Americas back to Europe?

  Plantation Products - sugar, cotton, coffee
• Name the 7 types of people that profited from the TST:

  Ports, Plantation Owners, Ordinary People, Bankers, Factory owners, Slave Traders, Slave ship owners
• Name two short-term outcomes (and an example for them) of the TST:

  The Royal African Company was formed - transported 60,000 slaves between 1680-1688

  Slave Ship production - the ship Albinia, made on the Thames. Made one voyage to Jamaica with 178 prisoners
• Name two long-term outcomes (and an example for them) of the TST:

  Britain gained goods from plantations - cotton, sugar, coffee and tobacco

  Roads in Liverpool were named after slave owners - Sir Thomas Street, named after Sir Thomas Johnson, co-owner to one of the first recorded slave ship to sail from Liverpool
• What is active resistance?


  Opposition or challenge of a higher power through visible and sometimes violent methods.
• What is passive resistance?


  Opposition or challenge of a higher power through non-violent methods.
• What happened in 1730?


  The First Maroon War - the maroon's led a guerilla war against the owners. Most maroon leaders signed peace treaties with the Birtish afterwards
• What did everyday resistance do? Some example?


  Did more for slaves than owners

  1. Working slowly
  2. Pretending to be sick
  3. Stealing supplies
  4. Sabotaging equipment
  5. Harming or killing plantation animals
• What did running away and becoming a maroon do? Outcomes?


  They escaped slavery

  1. Created their own communities
  2. First Maroon War
• What did Tacky's revolt do?


  Slaves managed to overpower the British

  Stole guns

  Gained supporters

  Killed European settlers

  400 rebels died, 400 were executed, 500 were transported to other islands

  Gave power and strength to slaves
• What does abolish mean?


  To formally put an end to a system, practice or institution
• What happened in 1807?


  Britain abolishes the trading of slaves
• What happened in 1833?


  The Slavery Abolition Act was passed
• Who did William Wilberforce team up with in Parliament to abolish slavery?


  William Pitt, PM at the team
• What happened to slaves after they were freed?


  They had to work 45 hours a week for 4 years for their owners.
• How much money was given to slave owners in total? Why? How long did it take to pay off?

  £17-£20 million (£17 billion now)

  Given for 'loss of property'

  180 years, untill 2015
• Who resisted abolition?

  Owners (determined)

  Fought is Parliament and churches

  No change of practice after 1807

  Owners lost cheap labour
• What did William Wilberforce do to help abolition?


  Introduced abolition bills every year from 1770s supporting abolition
• What did Granville Sharp do?


  He helped many slaves on the grounds that they couldn't de forced to leave Britain.