The Atlantic Slave Trade and Its Legacies — Quiz

What was the approximate ratio of median White household wealth to median Black household wealth in the United States as of the 2019 Survey of Consumer Finances?

According to the Slave Voyages Database, approximately how many enslaved Africans died during the Middle Passage between 1501 and 1866?

Which of the following best describes the legal principle of partus sequitur ventrem as applied in colonial Virginia from 1662?

Eric Williams's Capitalism and Slavery (1944) argued that British abolition of slavery in the early nineteenth century was primarily driven by which factor?

Which of the following was the LAST major American slaveholding society to legally abolish slavery?

Nathan Nunn's 2008 study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics found which of the following relationships?

The Haitian Revolution (1791–1804) is historically unique for which of the following reasons?

According to Beckert's Empire of Cotton (2014), approximately what proportion of British textile mills' cotton was supplied by US Southern slave-produced cotton before the Civil War?

Explain why the US enslaved population grew from approximately 400,000 direct African arrivals to 4 million by 1860, and how this distinguishes the US from Caribbean and Brazilian slave economies.

What were the key terms of British slave emancipation in 1833–1834, and what does the Legacies of British Slave-Ownership project reveal about their long-term significance?

What is 'weathering' as described by Geronimus and colleagues, and how does it connect the history of slavery to contemporary health disparities?

Drawing on at least four of the content pages covered in this topic, assess the argument that the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the plantation economies it sustained were structurally central — rather than incidental — to the development of modern Atlantic capitalism. In your answer, consider both the economic mechanisms involved and the ideological systems that accompanied them.