What rights did an enslaved person have?
The right to food and drink
No rights
The right to shelter
What was the most common punishment for enslaved people on plantations?
Flogging
Hanging
Imprisonment
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
A Spanish slave trader
The President of Haiti after rebellion on the island of Saint Domingue
An enslaved man who gained his freedom
During harvest time, how long were enslaved people expected to work each day?
10 hours
9 hours
18 hours
A third of enslaved people died on plantations as a result of what?
Disease and hard work
Accidents
Old age
What happened to the French Caribbean colony of St. Domingue in 1791?
A rebellion of enslaved people took control of the island
The British invaded and captured it
It became the leading sugar producing colony in the Caribbean
In Jamaica, what did most white people think was the best way to keep enslaved people under control?
Kindness and decent conditions
Hard work
Brute force
What was the main method used by enslaved people to resist their 'masters'?
They rose up together in large rebellions
They refused to do any work
They used passive resistance (working slowly), or ran away
How common were rebellions of enslaved people?
They were a regular occurrence. Plantation owners were constantly vigilant
They happened once in a lifetime at most
On average they happened once every 20 years
Who were the 'Maroons'?
Dye makers from Liverpool who profited from the slave trade
A mixture of indigenous islanders and people who had run away from slavery in Jamaica.
It was a slang term for soldiers in the British Army