Describe the ways that slaves rebelled on plantations - 1. Passive resistance: deliberately work slowly or badly 2. Armed resistance against the plantation owners 3. Keeping their native culture alive by singing or speaking their language 4. Deliberately breaking or damaging machines so that work stopped or slowed, Describe the ways in which slaves were punished on plantations - 1. Separated from their families/new relationships and sent to different plantations 2. Iron muzzles to prevent them from talking 3. Ear nailed to a post and cut off 4. Put in thumbscrews or a metal halter around their neck while they worked, Explain why slaves found it difficult to rebel on the plantations - 1.Lack of weapons to fight masters with guns. 2.  Slaves who attempted to escape were severely punished such as flogging 3. Many worked 18 hour days so lacked energy and time to plot a rebellion 4. Born into slavery and brainwashed into accepting this as normal, Describe the methods used by abolitionists to end the slave trade - 1. Petitions were sent to parliament opposing the slave trade 2. William Wilberforce, an MP, used his position in parliament to introduce bills to ban slavery 3. Sons of Africa such as Equiano wrote books describing life as a slave 4.  Clarkson toured the country showing thumbscrews, shackles and branding irons as well as images of a tight packed ship, Describe the impact of the slave trade on the West Indies - 1. Other industry did not thrive since the islands focused purely on plantations based on slavery 2. Plantation owners were wealthy and invested money in the islands building large houses and roads 3. Small farms and the landscape were eradicated to make way for plantations growing crops by slaves such as cotton for the triangular trade4. Racism which was displayed in slavery became ingrained in society, Describe the stages of the triangular trade - 1. Ships loaded with cheaply produced products such as guns and glass beads left from Liverpool and Bristol sailing to Africa 2. Ships would trade these products in exchange for slaves that were waiting to be purchased at slave factories 3. Slaves were transported to the West Indies known as the middle passage, around 10% of the slaves did not survive the journey 4. In the West Indies slaves were sold for a profit. This money was used to purchase slave produced products such as tobacco which were sailed back to the UK and sold for a profit., Describe the methods used by the abolitionists to end the slave trade - 1. Petitions were sent to parliament in support of abolition 2. Sons of Africa such as Equiano wrote books about their experiences 3. Clarkson toured the country with thumbscrews, branding irons and Brookes ship diagram 3. William Wilberforce made speeches in parliament as an MP in favour of ending slavery and introduced bills for over 16 years to end the slave trade 4. People boycotted sugar which came from plantations which used slavery, over 300,000 took part, Describe the living conditions on the plantations - 1. Slaves lived in poorly furnished shacks which were on the plantation close to overseers. 2. Slaves would be given salted fish from their owners but would have to grow their own crops 3. Many female slaves self aborted pregnancies to avoid bringing more children into slavery 4. The death rate was very high, due to overwork on from diseases such as dysentery and yellow fever, Why were profits so high from the slave trade - 1. Ships made a profit selling or trading goods at every stage of the triangle. 2 Slaves would cost around £12 but could be sold for £60 making a profit 3. Slave produced goods such as tobacco, sugar and cotton which were sold in Britain were in demand and sold for a high sum of money 4. Slaves could be packed tightly in the middle passage, unable to lie on their back, this meant a larger number of slaves to sell, Describe the way that Britain profited from the slave trade - 1. The finance industry grew, as merchants needed loans to finance their journey and invest their profits 2. Consumers were able to get goods which were in demand such as sugar and tobacco far cheaper than if slaves hadn't been used 3. Wealthy merchants invested money made from slave trade profits to build parks and £16 million was given to Glasgow Uni 4.  Many jobs were created and depended on the slave trade : shipbuilding, factories producing goods such as glass beads to sell, jobs in cotton mills manufacturing slave produced cotton, Describe the way in which British ports were impacted by the slave trade - 1. Huge number of jobs created for example in shipyards 2. Increase in population as people flocked to work there, Liverpool grew from 5,000 to 78,000 in the 1800s and became the 2nd city of the Empire 3. Ports towns involved in the slave trade became very wealthy such as Liverpool. Rich merchants invested in large houses in Liverpool. 4.  Glasgow primarily imported slave produced tobacco and became wealthy through manufacturing and selling this on.,

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