QLA115Slavery Begins in the Americas

Answer to the Essential Question:

• The goal of slave traders, merchants and ship captains as they planned the layout of the ship with such precision was to maximize profits /economic purposes because slaves= production=$$$
• The slave traders, merchants and ship captains planned the layout of the ship with such precision because they wanted the slaves to be comfortable and stay with their families on the ships

Which is The Middle Passage ? :

• The Middle Passage was the stage of the Pacific slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
• The Middle Passage was the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.

Transfer: to move from one place to another

• noun
• verb

Chattel Slavery:

• People are treated as goods with virtually no human rights
• People are treated like house attendants, butlers and nannies with solid human rights in place

What is this an example of? : Example: Large populations of African people who were brought to the Americas through slavery. The African _____ began centuries before the slave trade, when millions of Sub-Saharan Africans migrated to Europe and Asia.

• diaspora, a Greek word for "scatter"
• economic, from Greek oikonomikos, from oikonomia (see economy). Originally a noun, the word denoted household management or a person skilled in this

Abolish:

• to put an end to
• to start, introduce, begin

What is a plantation?

• Flower and plant shops were plants and other varieties of greenery are purchased
• Huge farms that required a large labor force to grow crops
• The process of drying out flowers and plants

What is this an Example of?: The ______of slavery was a system that forced people to work for others, primarily Africans and African Americans, and took away their rights and personal freedom. It was a legal system that treated enslaved people as property, or chattel, that could be bought, sold, or given away. Slavery was a major part of the United States from 1776 until 1865, and it had a significant impact on the country's social, economic, and political systems.

• The Diaspora of Africans
• The Abolishment of Slavery
• The Institution of Slavery

What is this? The process being owned and controlled by another person The action of making someone a slave

• servitude
• secession
• enslavement

Secession

• withdraw formally from membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.
• join formally into a membership in a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.