The slave trade

• Middle Passage?


  Transatlantic slave trade.
• When was the slave trade abolished in UK?

  1807
• When was slavery abolished in USA?

  1865
• What was the underground railroad?


  A transportation service that moved 100,000's of slaves to freedom. the system was run by many white but mainly black people who built routes for them.
• what was the trade triangle?

  Europe would supply West Africa with ammunition (guns) and West Africa would send slaves to the Caribbean and they would be traded for sugar, rum, cotton and spices which would sent to Europe
• what work would the enslaved people do on plantations?

  grow sugar, fieldwork, stock work, nurses, midwives
• what would the treatment of the enslaved people be like?

  they were whipped if disobedient, in Antigua it was legal to kill slaves, and captured runaways would be hanged or maimed
• what were the living conditions like on plantations?


  they lived in small cottages with thatched roofs, only a bed, table and bench
• what is passive resistance?

  Nonviolent protest
• what is active resistance?

  violent protesters
• what forms of passive protest would the enslaved people use?

  they would sing songs about their masters and heritage using code words
• what forms of active protest would the enslaved people use?

  Escape, rebellion
• who was William Wilberforce?

  abolitionist who campaigned for the abolition of slavery for 18 years he regularly introduced anti-slavery motions in parliament
• when was the transatlantic slave trade banned in the British empire?

  1807