Social Studies

Amaya Stokes

21 June, 20:23

Middle Passage

1. What did each slave ship captain one each voyage that carried slaves to yield? (Note, yield needs to provide or produce.)

2. Approximately how many Africans were introduced to the new world through slave trade?

The Growth of Slavery

3. What was the chief source of plantation labor in the Southern colonies?

Slave Life on the Farm and in Town

4. What were the duties of household slaves? Did they receive better or worse treatment than plantation slaves?

Free African Americans in the Colonial Era

5. List two ways the African-American slaves could gain freedom during the Colonial era.

6. While it was rare, menu mission was practiced during the Colonial era. What was menu mission and why would a slave owner grant it to a slave?