Freedom, Enslavement and Resistance

By showing their willingness to cooperate with the ship's crew.

By overcoming language barriers to organize uprisings.

By accepting their fate and working together to survive.

By negotiating with the ship's captain for better treatment.

It led to the immediate abolition of slavery in the United States.

It resulted in the enslaved Africans being immediately returned to Africa.

It ended with a Supreme Court decision granting freedom to the enslaved Africans.

It encouraged the expansion of the transatlantic slave trade.

Ships were made larger to accommodate more enslaved people.

Ships were equipped with better medical facilities to reduce mortality.

Ships were designed with fewer weapons to avoid inciting violence.

Ships were modified with barricades and nets to suppress resistance.

Decreased demand for enslaved labor due to high mortality rates.

Reduced profits for plantation owners in the Americas.

Increased costs for enslavers due to damaged goods and security.

Lower insurance rates for slave ships due to fewer successful revolts.

Nat Turner

Denmark Vesey

Sengbe Pieh

Toussaint Louverture

The religious beliefs of the enslaved Africans.

The measures used to suppress resistance, such as weapons and nets.

The detailed nutritional information of the food provided.

The personal stories and backgrounds of individual captives.

To seek rescue by nearby European ships.

To escape the inhumane conditions and choose death over enslavement.

To attempt to swim back to their homeland in Africa.

To prove their physical strength and endurance to the crew.

Negotiating better working conditions with the crew.

Learning English to communicate their needs.

Organizing hunger strikes to protest their enslavement.

Offering to trade skills for freedom.

By learning to read and write in European languages.

By forming alliances with sympathetic crew members.

By organizing work slowdowns and feigning illness.

By creating musical performances to entertain themselves and the crew.

It decreased public sympathy for enslaved Africans.

It legitimized the transatlantic slave trade in the eyes of the law.

It exposed the cruelty of the slave trade and fueled the abolitionist movement.

It led to stricter laws enforcing the rights of enslavers.