Fill in the blank. By 1550, the majority of African slaves transported to the Americas were destined for ________________.
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Fill in the blank. The first Africans to set foot in Jamestown arrived in the English colony via a _______________ ship.
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For the first two decades of the seventeenth century, what kind of laborers worked in the Jamestown colony?
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In the 1400s, the Portuguese exported all of the following goods to West Africa EXCEPT which of the following?
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In the 1600s, which luxury good primarily drove the Atlantic trade?
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In the early 1500s, the Portuguese bought African slaves from the Kingdom of Kongo and then re-sold them where?
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Where did European traders first export African slaves to in the 1400s?
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Which of the following contributed to the beginning of the Age of Discovery?
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Which of the following is NOT a reason for the economic downturn in São Tomé during the latter 1500s?
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Which of the following is NOT an area where the Portuguese supplied African slaves to in the 1500s?
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Which of the following statements is false in describing the slaver brig “Diligente”?
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Which of the following was the first permanent “slave factory” on the West African coast?
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Why did the Portuguese originally colonize the island of São Tomé?
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What valuable commodity did Europeans originally seek to export from Africa in the 1400s?
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After 1514, which of the following was NOT a view of Bartolomé de las Casas?
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All of the following are reasons that Europeans enslaved Africans EXCEPT:
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During which time period was the volume of the Atlantic slave trade the highest?
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In the early 1600s, Amerindian slaves in Barbados did which of the following?
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The Bantu-speaking peoples who came in large numbers to the Carolina Lowcountry and Brazil were from which region in Africa?
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The largest percentage of Africans entering the United States through the Atlantic slave trade was from which region?
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The slave trade that utilized the northern Atlantic trade winds was dominated by which European nation?
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The slave trade that utilized the southern Atlantic trade winds primarily supplied Africans to which New World colony?
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Until 1640, all of the following characterized “slavery” in Virginia EXCEPT which of the following?
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What made New World slavery different from other forms of slavery?
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When did race-based slavery originate?
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Which European disease was the primary cause of death among Amerindians?
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Who were the first laborers in the English colony of Jamestown?
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Arawak laborers were imported to Barbados from what region in the early 1600s?
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From 1595-1640, the Atlantic slave trade to the Spanish Americas was concentrated in which New World port?
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From where did the Spanish import slaves after decimating the enslaved indigenous population of Hispaniola in the early 1500s?
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In Brazil, the transition from indigenous to African enslaved labor was complete by around which year?
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In order for Portugal to expand its slave trading empire in the face of Ottoman imperial expansion, which of the following countries did it begin trading with in the 1540s?
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In the 1600s, which of the following Dutch holdings was an important depot for the commodity trade and slave trade with the Spanish mainland colonies?
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Other than slaves, what commodities did the Dutch West India Company import from the Gold Coast?
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Spain’s first experiment in sugar cultivation and plantation slavery took place in which region?
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What was the objective of the first “grand design” of the Dutch West India Company?
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Which English monarch was a primary supporter of the slave company known as the Royal Adventurers into Africa, granting the company a charter in 1660?
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Which Englishman pioneered English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade?
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Which of the following was the most important English port in the Atlantic slave trade?
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Which region was the birthplace of the Portuguese pattern of exploration?
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Why did the number of slaves in Portugal decline after 1600?
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Which of the following determined who became enslaved in Iberia in the mid-1500s?
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After 1700, which of the following resulted in an increase in enslavement and wars within Africa?
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By the eighteenth century, several forms of slavery were practiced in Africa, including which of the following?
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Fill in the blank. Enclosures in which enslaved Africans were held prior to shipment were called ________________.
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Fill in the blank. In Africa, the coercive system of labor known as pawnship involved the use of people as ________________.
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The slave trade within Africa continued in the 1800s despite which of the following?
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What resulted from the presence of European slave traders on the West African coast?
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What type of slavery characterized the Atlantic slave trade?
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What was the effect of the Atlantic slave trade on the Arab slave traders?
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Which of the following DID NOT account for the vast majority of Africans deported to the Americas?
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Which of the following is NOT a means by which slaves were obtained in the Islamic world?
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Which of the following was a reason why Africans enslaved other Africans?
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Which of the following was NOT a large state that developed in West Africa during the era of the Atlantic slave trade?
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Which of the following was NOT a use of black African slaves in the Islamic Empire?
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In many African societies, slaves were employed in all of the following roles EXCEPT which of the following?
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Fill in the blank. By the early 1700s, slaves imported to Brazil were mainly working on sugar plantations and ________________.
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Fill in the blank. Enslaved African Americans who escaped into the wilderness to form their own separate communities were called _______________.
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Fill in the blank. In the first part of the sixteenth century, Hispaniola’s increased imports of Africans signaled the shift from ____________ to chattel slavery.
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In 1518, the Spanish king made which of the following amendments to Spain’s Atlantic slave trade policy?
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In the Carolinas in the early 1700s, slavery became an entrenched institution based upon the profitability of which crop?
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Many of the first generation of African slaves arrived in the New World via which region?
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The Louisiana Code Noir of 1724 established all of the following EXCEPT:
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Which of the following British American cities experienced slave rebellions in the first half of the eighteenth century?
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Which of the following individuals was kidnapped in Guinea and brought to Rhode Island in 1737 through the Atlantic slave trade?
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Which of the following was legal under the slave codes of the Carolinas in the 1700s?
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Which of the following was NOT a skill performed by slaves on many large plantations in British North America?
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Which of the following was NOT a social class described by Hugh Jones of Virginia in 1724?
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Which “revolution” in the Caribbean had the greatest impact on the Atlantic slave trade?
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What was the largest slave-trading port in British North America in the early 1700s?
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According to historians’ estimates, approximately how many enslaved Africans were transported to the New World?
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According to the former slave Olaudah Equiano, all of the following were common punishments for slaves EXCEPT:
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Alexander Falconbridge, who wrote an account of the Atlantic slave trade, was intimately familiar with the Middle Passage because of which of the following reasons?
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During the Middle Passage, what accounted for high mortality rates among Africans?
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Fill in the blank. In 1758, Boyrereau Brinch was kidnapped, enslaved, and taken to the Americas by ______________ traders.
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Fill in the blank. While slave ships were legally permitted to carry no more than around 350 captives, some ships carried more than __________ captives.
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How did some European governments try to regulate the Atlantic slave trade?
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In Britain, most slave ships were built in which port city?
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Which of the following is NOT a way in which captive Africans resisted their enslavement during the Middle Passage?
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Which of the following is NOT a way in which ship captains prepared them for market once the captive Africans arrived in the New World?
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Which of the following occurred on board slave ships when captive Africans tried to starve themselves?
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Which of the following was NOT a special name bestowed by captive Africans upon each other during the Middle Passage?
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Which of the following was NOT considered by the plantation owner Thomas Thistlewood of Jamaica when newly purchasing African slaves?
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In addition to the “triangular trade” routes, there was also a direct trading route across the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and which region?
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A large-scale slave revolt broke out in which region in 1791?
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After 1860, the Atlantic slave trade was carried on mostly by which of the following:
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Beginning in the 1810s, which group policed the West African coast for slave trading vessels?
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Between 1801 and 1867, the majority of African captives were transported to which of the following locations?
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Fill in the blank. In 1820, the United States government made international slave trading an act of _______________.
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Fill in the blank. The group of black abolitionists based in Britain was known as __________________.
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Illegal slave trading failed to flourish in which of the following American states?
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Many states in the American South tried to re-open the Atlantic slave trade during which decade?
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What is the primary evidence that the Atlantic slave trade was being carried on in the United States illegally after 1808?
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What judicial body oversaw the prosecution of ships suspected of illegal slave trading?
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When did the last slave ship arrive in Cuba?
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Which of the following countries abolished the Atlantic slave trade first?
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Which of the following was NOT a demographic impact of the Atlantic slave trade?
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Which of the following was NOT an impact of the Atlantic slave trade upon Africa?
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The United States outlawed the slave trade in which year?
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