Assignment task:
Watch the video and answer questions
YouTube Video: The Transatlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course Black American History #1
1. ???What is the name of the historian who presents this film?
2. ???How many years did this trade go on?
3. ???How many regions of Africa lost people to this trade, and what are those regions?
4. ???Define the word bight.
5. ???What is the estimate of the number of people who were put on ships toward the Americas during this trade?
6. ???Why was this portion of the trade called the middle passage?
7. ???What is the estimate of the number of captives who died on the trip to the Americas?
8. ???What percentage of captured Africans in the trade came to the region of the United States?
9. ???What country received the largest percentage of enslaved Africans in this trade?
10. Who was Olaudah Equiano?
11. ????Who were the people who were traded to the European traders?
12. ????Define "intergenerational, hereditary chattel slavery" as discussed in the film.
13. ????What were the conditions on the slave ships, as discussed in the video?
14. ????What were individual acts of resistance that the people on board committed?
15. ????What was the purpose of the nets placed on the sides of the ships by the enslavers?
16. ????What is a speculum orum?
17. ????What was the most destructive time of the transatlantic slave trade according to Marcus Redeker?
18. ????What is the estimate of the percentage of people who were enslaved in the interior of Africa who didn't make it to the coast?
19. Of that number/percentage who got on a ship at the coast, how many/what percentage were still alive after the tip across the Atlantic?
20. ????How many of those people who made it off the ship in the Americas, would survive the first three to four years?
21. ????What was the Royal African Company?
22. ????What were the most active years of this company?
23. ????What year did the U.S. federal government prohibit the Atlantic Slave trade
24. ????Where is the area in the United States called, by some, African Americans' Ellis Island?
25. ????In what year did Britain abolish slavery in its colonies?
26. ????When was slavery officially abolished in the United States?
27. ????When did Brazil abolish slavery?