Slavery
- Created by: Nile Thomas
- Created on: 04-06-13 20:22
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- Slavery
- Journey
- Most slave ships meant to carry 250 slaves. Some squashed in 300
- Many diseases about the place, such as dysentry.
- Hot humid conditions of waste, stench, and filth
- Journey normally lasted 2 months
- Many diseases about the place, such as dysentry.
- Most slave ships meant to carry 250 slaves. Some squashed in 300
- 15,000,000 Africans transported between Africa and the Americas
- Impacts
- Sugar
- Gave britain a sweet tooth.
- Cotton
- Fed the rapid increase in population
- Profits of 5,000 pounds per ship could be made. Some invested in things on Britain
- Sugar
- Abolishment
- Blacks
- Olaudah Equiano
- Slave who earnt his freedom, learnt to read and write
- Wrote a book
- Campaigned against slavery, opened peoples eyes
- Became a famous bestseller
- Changed many opinions
- Wrote a book
- Made massive impact
- Showed that blacks weren't stupid and were literate
- Slave who earnt his freedom, learnt to read and write
- Slaves revolted
- In St Dominigue. They overcame the slave masters, and slavery was abolished there in 1791
- In England, slaves would run away. Masters did not bother to find them
- Olaudah Equiano
- 1807, people could own slaves until 1833
- Middle class whites
- Granville sharpe
- When a slave owner was to be taken back to the americas, Sharpe took it to court, fought, and won many cases
- William wilberforce
- Best known quaker and MP
- Spoke about slavery in parliament
- Campaigned
- Granville sharpe
- Working class whites
- Many meetings held
- In the 1780's many petitions were sent to parliament
- Blacks
- Slaves would work all day on their plantations, in poor living conditions with poor diets.
- Average life expectancy 26
- Most babies died before 10 days old.
- Economics
- From 1770's Americas became less important
- Cuba and Brazil cheaper sugar
- Demand for slaves fell, plantations shut down
- From 1770's Americas became less important
- Journey
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