UNC HIST 278 Transatlantic Slave Trade Prof. Lisa
Linsday Final Exam notes
these are notes off of all the quizzes over the semester. The final exam pulls questions
from these quizzes but not all of them. I made the quizzes into one collective quiz here (it
will tell you answers and score after you finish it) https://forms.gle/pQD8WSrZFxZzpFyh9
Slavery existed in Africa before the transatlantic slave trade
Slaving Voyages
36,000 slaving voyages are recorded in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Florence Hall’s recollections provide different information than the information in the
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.
Societies with Slaves
In societies with slaves, slavery was NOT a fundamental feature of politics, the economy,
and society
West and Central African societies before the Transatlantic slave trade were NOT slave
societies.
Ancient Greece is an example of a society with slaves.
Colonies in Mainland Spanish South America in the 1500s were societies with slaves
Sources historians have used to study the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• survivors’ accounts
• tax records
• shipping records
, The European Crusades were important to the history of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade because
• They introduced Europeans to sugar cultivation
• They helped spread the idea that Christians (ie Europeans) should not enslave other
Christians
• They fueled the traffic in war captives
12.5 million captives were taken from Africa to the Americas (and elsewhere) during
the Transatlantic Slave Trade; however, only 10.7 million captives disembarked these
ships.
Primary source examples:
• ship’s log
• diary
• newspaper article
Maritime Revolution
• major innovations in technology, trade, and exploration in the 14th and 15th
centuries
Innovations of the “Maritime revolution”
• better knowledge of winds and currents
• improvements in navigation
• invention of the caravel
Images in the manuscript by Guaman Poma de Ayla show
• an African slave beating a Native Peruvian
• an African mule driver
• Spaniards beating African slaves
Linsday Final Exam notes
these are notes off of all the quizzes over the semester. The final exam pulls questions
from these quizzes but not all of them. I made the quizzes into one collective quiz here (it
will tell you answers and score after you finish it) https://forms.gle/pQD8WSrZFxZzpFyh9
Slavery existed in Africa before the transatlantic slave trade
Slaving Voyages
36,000 slaving voyages are recorded in the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database
Florence Hall’s recollections provide different information than the information in the
Transatlantic Slave Trade Database.
Societies with Slaves
In societies with slaves, slavery was NOT a fundamental feature of politics, the economy,
and society
West and Central African societies before the Transatlantic slave trade were NOT slave
societies.
Ancient Greece is an example of a society with slaves.
Colonies in Mainland Spanish South America in the 1500s were societies with slaves
Sources historians have used to study the Transatlantic Slave Trade
• survivors’ accounts
• tax records
• shipping records
, The European Crusades were important to the history of the Transatlantic
Slave Trade because
• They introduced Europeans to sugar cultivation
• They helped spread the idea that Christians (ie Europeans) should not enslave other
Christians
• They fueled the traffic in war captives
12.5 million captives were taken from Africa to the Americas (and elsewhere) during
the Transatlantic Slave Trade; however, only 10.7 million captives disembarked these
ships.
Primary source examples:
• ship’s log
• diary
• newspaper article
Maritime Revolution
• major innovations in technology, trade, and exploration in the 14th and 15th
centuries
Innovations of the “Maritime revolution”
• better knowledge of winds and currents
• improvements in navigation
• invention of the caravel
Images in the manuscript by Guaman Poma de Ayla show
• an African slave beating a Native Peruvian
• an African mule driver
• Spaniards beating African slaves
