Atlantic Slave Trade Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 5. _________ was a prosperous African settlement in Brazil of runaway slaves.
  2. 6. Ultimately, what makes slavery, slavery is that slaves are _________.
  3. 9. Overseers on sugar plantations kept a hatchet nearby for _________ of hands and arms caught in the rollers used to process sugarcane.
  4. 10. _________ slavery means a slave is moveable property and has the same root word as cattle.
  5. 11. To understand the tragedy of slavery, we have to see slaves both as the human beings they were, and as they were viewed, as an economic _________.
Down
  1. 1. Slaves were packed into the cargo hold of ships the same as barrels of _________ or bales of cotton.
  2. 2. Africans kingdoms were much too powerful for the Europeans to just _________.
  3. 3. After purchase, slave owners would often _________ slaves like cattle or horses.
  4. 4. Americans are often surprised by the fact that Africans sold other Africans into slavery. But this is not unique in history. Greeks and Romans enslaved other Europeans. Greeks even enslaved _________ from other city-states.
  5. 7. On sugar plantations, the _________ rate was higher than the birthrate.
  6. 8. On sugar plantations, slaves often worked _________ hours straight during harvest time without sleep because sugar would spoil, if it was not processed.