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Chap: 4 Sect: 3 Slave video
Part One
Was the journey from Africa with the slaves they picked up, to the Americas to trade the slaves.
What were the three major items used by European traders as payment for slaves?
Gun, gun power, shells (Africans valued as money), brandy (rum)
Conditions: having no privacy, no room at all to move, sleep on wood, and only go to the bathroom twice a day.
Part Two
How did the European factors participate in the transatlantic slave trade?
The European factors worked along the coast of Africa acting as middlemen who arranged to buy slaves and traded them for other goods.[ Powerful Coastal African Tribes --> take from Weaker Interior African Tribe --> European Slave Trader --> Factor (factories) --> Slave Buyer ]
What was the significance of the Untied States Supreme Court decision regarding the "Amistad affair?"
The "Amistad" decision marked the first time that the United States recognized Africans not as property, but as free human beings.
John Newton: was a slave ship crew member... then a captine... and he rebelished against the slave trade... he became a minister... after he was saved by god...
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1888 is when the last slave market, ends. (Brazil)
1808 is done with bringing in new slaves (United States)
13,000 voyages --> 12 million enslaved Africans --> 20 Million were captured and brought to be sold in to slavery
Slaves were more valuable than gold
some slaves would jump over board.
if they refused to eat they would force open their mouths... or smash their teeth out and force the food into their mouths, and then hold their jaw shut until they swallowed the food.
pack them in as tightly as you can and you can fit more in but you could bring over more but you would also lose a lot of them but still bring over more than you would before.
people would smuggle s