Exam 4: Slavery and Empire

Why did Europeans stop enslaving other Europeans by the early fifteenth century?

The political, economic, and cultural demoralization of the slave trade prepared the way for __________.

Eighteenth-century slave masters were reluctant to allow their slaves to become Christians because they __________.

Which of these was the most important commodity produced in eighteenth-century North America?

In slave areas, traditional African cultural customs __________.

From 1700 to 1760, exports from the colonies to England rose 165 percent, while imports from Britain to North America rose by more than __________.

Which of these slave rebellions was considered to be the most violent of the colonial period, resulting in the deaths of twenty-three whites and forty-five to fifty slaves?

Give a summary of slavery in the Spanish colonies. Was slavery there more or less harsh than in British North American colonies? Why?

Which type of person was most likely to be enslaved in fifteenth-century West Africa?

Why did male slaves generally outnumber female slaves in the Americas by two to one?

What were the political and economic consequences of the Atlantic slave trade for Africa?

Locations such as Madeira, Barbados, Jamaica, and Haiti illustrate the commercial connection between slavery and __________.

From 1714 to the eve of the American Revolution, what percentage of exports from the Americas to Great Britain was composed of tobacco, rice, indigo, and sugar combined?

What English colony was founded, in part, to create a buffer zone against Spanish invasions from Florida?

The mid-seventeenth-century Chesapeake is best described as __________.

The most obvious effect of slavery on the economy of the British Empire was seen in the __________.

Which of these best describes the long-term impact of the slave trade on Africa?

How was West African slavery different from slavery in the Americas?

What were maroons?

Before Columbus, trade in slaves in Europe was __________.