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	Which of the following areas was the destination for the greatest number of African slaves throughout the Atlantic slave trade?   Spanish America. British North America. French Caribbean. Brazil.

	This nation, the first to abolish the Atlantic slave trade, enforced that abolition on other nations through a naval patrol off the coast of Africa.   Brazil. The United States. Spain. Great Britain.

	Of the following criteria used by planters to assess the successful seasoning of new Africans, all were significant except:   Africans' survival. Africans' psychological acceptance of their enslavement. Africans' adaptation to new foods and climate. Africans' ability to learn English.

	Male slaves predominated in the Atlantic slave trade in part because West Africans tended to withhold women from the trade because they were preferred for agricultural work at home.    True  False

	Most Europeans saw a distinct contradiction between their Christian faith and their enslavement and ill treatment of African men, women, and children.    True  False

	Most mutinies aboard slaver ships took place on the open sea when it became clear that the enslaved Africans preferred death to bondage.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. In the early 1400s, took the lead among European nations in trading with West Africans and became the first European nation to develop the Atlantic slave trade.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The word means personal property, and the term was used by Europeans to further justify the loss of customary human rights to their slaves.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The primary cause of death at sea during the middle passage was not intentional cruelty, but .

	Which of the following best describes the internal African slave trade that European voyagers found when they first arrived at Senegambia, Benin, and Kongo?   A West African slave trade which primarily involved the capture of young men for agricultural labor. An Islamic slave trade conducted by Sudanese horsemen that dealt mainly in women and children. A trans-Sahara slave trade in which only men were captured and sold as soldiers for Morocco and Egypt. An Islamic slave trade based on race that involved the capture and sale of Berbers.

	The fortified structures along the African coast where captives were held in dungeons or holding pens prior to their transportation to the New World were called:   forts. Elminas. plantations. factories.

	What factors theoretically determined how many slaves could be carried in a slave ship?   African middlemen who sold slaves to the Europeans retained control over the number of slaves shipped. The captain of the slave ship decided the size of his cargo. The destination of the ship because greater demand called for larger human cargoes. A ship's size, measured in tonnage, and based on a formula of two slaves per ton.

	During the peak of the slave trade during the 1790s, the English transported more than 200,000 Africans to the New World per year.    True  False

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The term described slaves who had been born in the Americas.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. As part of the seasoning process, slaves learned new languages and were often given new by their masters to strip them of their African identity.

	Within the question text below, there is one text entry field where you can enter your answer. The growth of crops provided great profits and an insatiable demand for slave labor in Brazil and the West Indies.

	Of the following, demand for this product did not increase demand for slaves.   Sugar Coffee Tobacco Rice

	The Spanish government granted monopolies to private companies to deal in slaves, known as ____________.   Asiento Nuevo Permissio Requerimiento

	The practice of putting slaves in close proximity during the Middle Passage was known as __________.   tight squeezing sardining close cramping tight packing

	In 1789, which former slave wrote about his capture and ordeal?   Miguel de Cervantes Nzinga Mbemba John Newton Olaudah Equiano

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