1. The transport of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies the Caribbean and the americas is known as the ____.
2. In certain areas such as the Caribbean and Brazil the slave death rate was so much higher than the birth rate that the slave population couldn’t be sustained without importing more slaves from Africa. True or false?
3. African people and people of African descent had already been present in the americas for more than a century before the first English colony of virginia was colonized in 1607. True or false?
4. Slavery came about at the first rise of the Greek and Roman empires in 2000 bce. True or false
5. What present day US state were the first African slaves brought to by Spanish explorers in 1526?
6. Where were the majority of African slaves originally sent to in the America’s?
7. The triangular trade of slaves being transported on ships from central Africa to the West Indies or Europe is known as the _____?
1. The transport of slaves across the Atlantic Ocean to the West Indies, the Caribbean, and the Americas is known as the Middle Passage.
2. True.
3. True.
4. False. Slavery has been practiced in various forms throughout history, including in ancient civilizations such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Sumer, predating the Greek and Roman empires.
5. The first African slaves were brought by Spanish explorers to present-day South Carolina.
6. The majority of African slaves were originally sent to plantations in the Southern colonies of North America, such as Virginia, South Carolina, and Georgia.
7. The triangular trade of slaves being transported on ships from central Africa to the West Indies or Europe is known as the Transatlantic Slave Trade.