AMH 2097 QUIZ 3

Slaving party

A group of Colonizers walk in one straight path through the interior of west Africa, on the walk back they begin kidnapping Africans with the help of a crewman guiding them through africa

Element of Suprise

Secretly kidnapping people so that they can collect the most amount of people

Shackles

Africans are shackled to 10 other people with their hands and their feet tied, your tied to people from different regions so you don't speak the same language

Punishments

They kill the first person who tries to escape to scare everyone, they bury you far from your home land

Barracoons

outdoor holding areas for slaves

slave forts

Large building that holds slaves on the lower levels with the top levels are used for shelter for colonizers. It was dark 24 hours a day with no room and limited food.

Door of no return

Located in Goree, Senegal. You come as an African and leave Enslaved

Owba Coocoo

West African term for Slave Canoes

Slave Canoes

Boat that takes you to the main slave ship

tight packers

When the Captain of a ship decides to fill the ship with as many African as Possible so that even if some die, there will be enough left that there will be a profit.

Loose packers

When the Captain of a ship decides not to fill the entire ship with Africans in order to make more room for Food, water, and essentials so that not as many people die and they make a profit for what they came with/

Golden age of the Slave Trade

1700-1808, The period when the most West Africans were kidnapped and sent across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean

Insurance

Africans had Insurance placed on them just in case they died on the Journey to the Americas so that the colonizers made some kind of profit

Sharks

Some sharks began to follow Slave ships because many were thrown overboard so they knew they would have Food. Migration patterns Changed

Ship Conditions

• Disease: a lot of diseases, 25 % died because of disease 

• Dehydration: lack of water, drunk more rum

• Dysentery: Diarra, lack of nutrients

Women’s Experiences

They had more freedom and free time then men because they were getting assaulted more

Shipmate

Someone who you shared and survived a Slave ship with. You have shared trauma and become family.

Middle Passage Numbers

• 12.8 million souls loaded onto ships

• 1.8 million die on the voyage

• 9 million went to the Americas

• 150-175 British slave Ships

- 40% of all Africans taken

Slave Rebellion

10% of slave ships have people who try and free themselves

Captain Tomba

 leader in the baga tribe, resistance leader who tried to free people, got caught and was brought onto a slave ship with Captain Richard Harding, was left alive for the worst fate

Captain Richard Harding

kills 3 people, called old cracker

The Boatswain

Mother/Nurse Figure, Conflict with Ship Officer, thrown overboard

Name: unknown

• Fight with village Chief: accused of witchcraft

• Resists enslavement

• Doctor thomas trotter

• British parliament

Slave Auctions

Happened primarily in Jamacia and Barbados in order to sell the Africans that were brought over from the middle passage to a slave owner. The owners were usually British colonizers who owned plantations and needed workers. They used to make the Africans look better than they were so that they sell for me.

Seasoner

A person who breaks the will of an African, teaches them the word yes and master

Hot Box

A huge hole in the sand with a metal structure in which non compliant slaves get sent to as a punishment

“Problem” Slaves

Were sent to America to be sold if they did not listen to their owners in the Caribbean

Average Price of a slave

$400-$1200

Onesimus

A slave who was given as a gift to Cotton Master, he knows a lot of Medicine, he created a smallpox vaccine during an epidemic in Boston 1721

Sxe Slavery

Enslaved Women who were attractive were sold into sxe work. they were called Fancy girls and were usually light skin between the ages of 12-40. Clary was the purchased for the most amount of money

Riverwalk

located in Savannah, Georgia, an area where slave auctions were actively happening, there is a statue of Maya Angeleou and of Enslaved people

Urban Slavery

People were not owned by Individuals but by Corporations, most likely a shipping company. This was the least common type of slavery; they earned a wage because they were living on the site of the job.

Manumissions

Purchasing your own freedom, became illegal after the revolutionary war

Family slavery

Usually only owned one to two enslaved people to watch the kids, cook, and clean like a house slave

Celia

Story of a 13-year-old girl purchased from a slave auction because his wife died, assaulted her before they made it home, met another enslaved black man and started dating her. He gets mad that shes getting assulted so she kills her master.

The Age of flexibility (1619-1680)

1. High Cost to buying slaves

2. No written laws about slavery

3. Indentured Servants were still doing Labor

gave enslaved people more freedom to make their plea in court

The end of the age of flexibility, 1680

• Indentured servants stop coming

• Tabacco is being grown

• Low cost for a slave so they become the primary labor source

• South Carolina becomes a colony, previously a French colony that had strict rules for slaves