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Quiz for The Atlantic Slave Trade

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1. Based on Venture Smith’s account (Document 3.11) and the document headnote, what can be inferred about the capture of prisoners in battle?

Capture led to death for women and children.

Prisoners of war were released.

Africans captured prisoners of war to sell in the slave trade.

Torture was not a method used with African prisoners of war.

Correct: The answer is c. The Atlantic slave trade was fueled by the capture and selling of African prisoners of war.

Incorrect: The answer is c. The Atlantic slave trade was fueled by the capture and selling of African prisoners of war.

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2. After reading the accounts of Venture Smith (Document 3.11) and Thomas Phillips (Document 3.12), what conclusions can you make regarding the roles of African monarchs in the slave trade?

African monarchs did not play an active role in the slave trade because they were the ones being sold to the Europeans.

African kings ran the slave trade, from the original capture of a free person to the sale of that person as a slave in the Americas.

African kings fought against the European-engineered slave trade.

African monarchs sold other Africans to Europeans, thus assisting with the Atlantic slave trade.

Correct: The answer is d. From the original capture to the sale of prisoners in trading posts along the western coast of Africa, Africans were complicit in the Atlantic slave trade.

Incorrect: The answer is d. From the original capture to the sale of prisoners in trading posts along the western coast of Africa, Africans were complicit in the Atlantic slave trade.

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3. According to Thomas Phillips (Document 3.12), how were the newly purchased slaves designated as chattel prior to the slave ship’s departure?

They were escorted to the helm of the ship.

They were branded with the letter of the ship.

They were set aside in a certain part of the dungeon.

They were chained together in the bottom of the boat.

Correct: The answer is b. Thomas Phillips wrote that the enslaved were marked with a hot iron with the letter of the ship on which they were set to board.

Incorrect: The answer is b. Thomas Phillips wrote that the enslaved were marked with a hot iron with the letter of the ship on which they were set to board.

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4. Based on the descriptions offered by Thomas Phillips (Document 3.12) and Willem Bosman (Document 3.13), what conclusion can be drawn concerning the slave trading posts along the western coast of Africa?

The process of buying a slave was disorganized along the western coast of Africa.

Slaves were treated humanely at the outset of the Atlantic slave trade.

Women and children were not a part of the Atlantic slave trade.

Sellers and buyers of slaves observed inhumane rituals along the western coast of Africa.

Correct: The answer is d. Inhumane rituals, from public medical examinations to branding, characterized the slave trading posts in Western Africa.

Incorrect: The answer is d. Inhumane rituals, from public medical examinations to branding, characterized the slave trading posts in Western Africa.

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5. What does Olaudah Equiano mean when he writes “Often did I think many of the inhabitants of the deep much more happy than myself” in his recollections (see Document 3.14)?

Equiano envied those men and women who were together below the deck of the ship.

Equiano was anxious to go to the sleep until the voyage was over.

Equiano felt as though the slave traders were better off than he, even if they were malicious.

Equiano wanted to be unencumbered like those who had perished in the ocean.

Correct: The answer is d. Equiano thought about his fellow captives who had perished and been thrown into the sea. He “envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs.”

Incorrect: The answer is d. Equiano thought about his fellow captives who had perished and been thrown into the sea. He “envied them the freedom they enjoyed, and as often wished I could change my condition for theirs.”