Beginnings of Slavery in America Chapter 2.5

What caused the European colonists to look for a new labor force?

• Native Americans refused to be enslaved.
•  Enslaved Africans already spoke English and French
• European diseases killed many Native Americans.
•  The transportation costs were too great.

Who along with colonists suggested using enslaved Africans as workers?

• Hernan Cortez
• King Petosa
•  Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Spanish priest
• Fernandez de Oviedo

What was the Middle Passage?

•  voyage of Africans across Atlantic to be sold as slaves
•  pattern of trade involving the American colonies
• a group of people who opposed slavery
•  area of Africa where most slaves came from

Between the 1520s and 1860s how many Africans were shipped across the Atlantic as slaves?

• 4 million
• about 12 million
• 9 million
• to many to count

The law considered enslaved Africans as 

• equals
• family
• indentured servants
• property

What does diaspora mean?

• the scattering of a group of people
• the migration of animals
• the migration of butterflies
• a disease that kills millions of people

What was a refuge, or a safe place, for slaves ?

• family
• religion
• singing and dancing 
• all of the answers