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17 Cards in this Set
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what did plantations mainly grow |
sugar cotton tobacco |
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what did the british have to sell |
manufactured goods: guns, pots, pans and cloth eg. |
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what did africa have to sell |
slaves |
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what did america have to sell |
cotton sugar tim tobacco |
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what did british want to buy |
sugar cotton tobacco rum |
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what did africa want to buy |
manufactured goods: guns pots pans cloth |
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what did america want to but |
slaves |
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famous slave ship |
brooke’s |
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how many slaves fit in brookes |
400 |
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where were they kept on the ship |
under the deck men in the front/bow children in centre women in stern/back |
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distance between the decks |
1.5m |
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how hot would it get below deck |
35 degrees |
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toilet? |
bucket but many didn’t reach it so lying in waste |
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dysentery |
deadly diarrhoea |
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how long was the middle passage |
40-70 days |
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between what dates how many slaves were taken across the atlantic how many died |
1510 and 1833 10 million slaves 2 million died |
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what happened to the slaves as the ships got nearer the plantations |
taken up top deck for exercise and air given buckets of food to share |
