Sugar & Slavery

Sugar cane seedlings from La Gomera came to which island?

• Bahamas

• Barbados

• Bahrain

• Bermuda

True or False: Christopher Columbus knew how to grow sugar because his wife's family had been successful in growing it.

• True

• False

Producing sugar does not require much labor or effort.

• True

• False

Slave trading was a highly profitable business. Slaves were transported to the Americas from which continent?

• Asia

• Africa

• South America

• Europe

The slave trade lasted for how many years?

• 100

• 200

• 300

• 400

The country most active in the slave trade was

• Portugal

• France

• Spain

• Denmark

Sugar cane was first domesticated and grown in

• New York

• New Guinea

• New Hampshire

What happened to the native people who lived on the islands that were colonized and turned into sugar plantations?

• They got on a boat and left.

• They died from disease.

• They moved to Europe

The supervisors at the sugar cane plantations were both black and white.

• True

• False

To get the juice out of the cane, the cut stalks were:

• crushed in a roller mill

• drained with a straw

• put into an electric juicer