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5666092019Sunni AliHe reigned from about 1464 to 1492. He was the first king of the Songhai Empire, located in Africa and the 15th ruler of the Sonni dynasty.0
5666093232BarracoonsAn enclosure in which black slaves were confined for a limited period.1
5666093233Vasco de GamaPortuguese explorer. He led the first European expedition around the Cape of Good Hope in 1497, sighting and naming Natal on Christmas Day before crossing the Indian Ocean and arriving in Calicut (Kozhikode, in India) in 1498.2
5666095042Triangular TradeA multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports to another.3
5666096424Middle PassageThe sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.4
5666096425African DiasporaRefers to the communities throughout the world that have resulted by descent from the movement in historic times of peoples from Africa, predominantly to the Americas and among other areas around the globe.5
5666099707AbolitionThe action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.6
5666099708DahomeyWas an African kingdom (located in the area of the present-day country of Benin) that existed from about 1600 until 1894, when the last king, Behanzin, was defeated by the French, and the country was annexed into the French colonial empire.7
5666104764Saint DomingueWas a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804. The French had established themselves on the western portion of the islands of Hispaniola and Tortuga by 1659.8

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