The impact of the Transatlantic slave trade on slaves

Choose the correct states of America where the slaves used to work on the plantations.

• Virginia

• Texas

• Louisiana

• Georgia

• Alaska

Here are some other states of America where the slaves used to work on the plantations. Choose the correct states.

• South Carolina

• Idaho

• Nebraska

• North Carolina

• Alaska

Select three jobs that slaves were expected to do on the plantations.

• Cooks

• General Manager

• Work in the fields

• Hunters

• Carriage drivers

List three rights that people have today that slaves on the plantations did not have.

• Freedom of movement

• Couldn't leave the farm

• Could only be Christians. Could not practise their own traditions and cultures.

• Right to an education

• The right to get paid

Why do you think the slaves called their owners “Master”? Choose two correct options.

• Because the did not know their names.

• Because they were friends

• They were owned by the plantation owner.

• Because they owned the property that the slaves worked on.

• He bought them at an auction.

Why do you think the owners gave the slaves new names

• Because they did not know their names.

• They could not pronounce the slaves name.

• They preferred "American" names.

What does "branding" mean?

• So the masters couldn't sell them.

• They could not pronounce the slaves name.

• the owner burnt his initials into the skin of the slave.

The slaves were not allowed to practise their own traditions and cultures, but they could become Christians.

• That was fair because it did not harm them.

• It’s unfair because everybody should have freedom of religion.

Why do you think that slave women were encouraged to have babies?

• To have big families.

• To grow the population in America.

• To use the children as slaves too.

Select two ways by which slaves were punished.

• Whipped

• Thrown into a dungeon for a year

• Put in a cage.

• Sold