The Captive's Experience
Cards (22)
- What title was given to the African who was responsible for making fellow slaves work on the plantations
- What was the busiest time of year on a sugar plantation?
- Who normally built the slaves' houses?
- How many sets of clothes did the slaves typically get each year?
- How many days a week were slaves given to farm their small plot of land one which they grew vegetables?
- What disease, linked to a lack of vitamins, did slaves often suffer from?
- Which slaves suffered from low fertility due to the poor diet?
- Which slaves often faced sexual abuse?
- How many hours a day did slaves typically work during the harvest?
- What was the name given to trusted slaves who were responsible for making their peers work?
- Were was the cut sugar cane taken to to extract the juice once it was harvested?
- What title describes the slaves who worked in the Great House as cooks, butlers and nannies?
- What did the plantation owners possess that allowed them to easily crush slave risings?
- What was the name given to freed slaves who often helped track down escapees?
- What were offered as an incentive to return escaped slaves?
- What might be split up if a married slave revolted?
- What did many slaves fear if they revolted?
- What did slaves do slowly as a form of resistance?
- What did slaves feign as a form of resistance?
- What did slaves break as a form of resistance?
- What did domestic slaves do as a form of resistance?
- Who could poison the plantation owner's food?