African Enslavement in the British Caribbean (17th-19th Century) PDF

African Enslavement in the British Caribbean (17th- 19th century Prepared by: Ms. Kimberley Stewart Objectives: 1. Define and use correctly the concepts/terms: Sugar Revolution, slave trade, enslaved Africans, Middle Passage, Trans- Atlantic trade, chattel present slavery, slave produ...

African Enslavement in the British Caribbean (17th- 19th century Prepared by: Ms. Kimberley Stewart Objectives: 1. Define and use correctly the concepts/terms: Sugar Revolution, slave trade, enslaved Africans, Middle Passage, Trans- Atlantic trade, chattel present slavery, slave production, exploitation, resistance, settlers, colonists, superior, inferior, plantation. 2. Identify Africa on a map of the world and locate the areas in West Africa from which the Africans were taken to be enslaved. Introductory Activity Definition of Key terms: Chattel slavery: a system of slavery in which an enslaved person is owned and treated as complete property, to be bought and sold by his master. Colonists: inhabitant of a colony. Enslavement: the system of making someone a slave. Enslaved Africans: persons of African origin who were forced to engage in the system of slavery. Ethnic groups: a community or population made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent. Exploitation: the action or fact of treating someone unfairly in order to benefit from their work. Definition of Key terms: Inferior: lower in quality or status. Middle Passage: the name given to the second 'leg' of the triangular slave trade. Plantation: the name given to the entire acreage devoted to various crops such as sugar cane and the manufacture of its by products such as sugar, rum and molasses. Production: the act of producing something. Resistance: the action of resisting. Settlers: a person who dwells in an area. Definition of Key terms: Sugar Revolution: a drastic change from growing tobacco on a large scale for export to growing sugar on a large scale for export. Slaver: ship used in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade to transport the cargo. Slave Trade: the sale of various African peoples predominantly to plantation owners in the Americas between the early 17th century and the 1860s. Superior: higher in status or quality. Trans-Atlantic trade: the complete route of the ships involved in the slave trade. Can you locate Africa on a Map of the World? Locating Africa on a Map of the World  Areas in West Africa from which the Africans were taken to be enslaved Slaves were mainly taken from West Africa. Slaves were taken from the Forest State (Oyo, Benin, Dahome, Ashanti). They came from that section of West Africa stretching from Senegal River in the north to the Congo River in the south. The various areas along the West African Coast have been given different names, Grain Coast, Ivory Coast, Gold Coast and slave Coast. The Africans who came to Jamaica were mainly from the Ibo and Yoruba ethnic groups of Nigeria and the Ashanti ethnic group of Ghana. Homework Research and locate on a map of the world the areas in West Africa from which the Africans were taken to be enslaved.