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HIST311 Final Exam - The Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1900
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HIST311 Final Exam - The Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1500-1900
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1. The slave trade that utilized the northern Atlantic trade winds was dominated by which European nation?
2. Which of the following was NOT a use of black African slaves in the Islamic Empire?
3. Who were the first laborers in the English colony of Jamestown?
4. Which Englishman pioneered English involvement in the Atlantic slave trade?
5. All of the following are reasons that Europeans enslaved Africans EXCEPT:
6. During the Middle Passage, what accounted for high mortality rates among Africans?
7. 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.
8. After 1514, which of the following was NOT a view of Bartolomé de las Casas?
9. During which time period was the volume of the Atlantic slave trade the highest?
10. 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?
11. Many of the first generation of African slaves arrived in the New World via which region?
12. The largest percentage of Africans entering the United States through the Atlantic slave trade was from which region?
13. What made New World slavery different from other forms of slavery?
14. Which of the following is NOT a reason for the economic downturn in São Tomé during the latter 1500s?
15. In many African societies, slaves were employed in all of the following roles EXCEPT which of the following?
16. A large-scale slave revolt broke out in which region in 1791?
17. Why did the number of slaves in Portugal decline after 1600?
18. By the eighteenth century, several forms of slavery were practiced in Africa, including which of the following?
19. The slave trade within Africa continued in the 1800s despite which of the following?
20. Which of the following determined who became enslaved in Iberia in the mid-1500s?
21. 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?
22. Which of the following was NOT a social class described by Hugh Jones of Virginia in 1724?
23. Which of the following is NOT a means by which slaves were obtained in the Islamic world?
24. 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?
25. According to the former slave Olaudah Equiano, all of the following were common punishments for slaves EXCEPT:

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