Chapter 18
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| 295804188 | Atlantic System | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. | 0 | |
| 295804189 | Chartered companies | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly of trade in the West Indies colonies. | 1 | |
| 295804190 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. | 2 | |
| 295804191 | Plantocracy | In the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the eighteenth century. | 3 | |
| 295804192 | "great gang" | Atlantic System and Africa; the main group of slaves on a plantation | 4 | |
| 295804193 | "grass gang" | Atlantic System and Africa; the group of slave children that helped with small jobs on plantations | 5 | |
| 295804194 | head boiler | artisan slave who oversaw the "delicate" process of reducing the cane sap to crystallized sugar and molasses. | 6 | |
| 295804195 | "driver" | job was to ensure that the gang completed its work. | 7 | |
| 295804196 | Seasoning | Africa went through the period of adjustment to a new environment known as seasoning, during which one-third, on average, died of unfamiliar diseases. | 8 | |
| 295804197 | grand blancs | Elite European born frenchman | 9 | |
| 295804198 | petit blancs | poor whites | 10 | |
| 295804199 | free blacks | The poor, vulnerable group that was the object of prejudice in the North and despised as a "third race" in the South | 11 | |
| 295804200 | Manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. | 12 | |
| 295804201 | Maroons | Runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous, forested, or swampy areas and formed their own self-governing communities. raided plantations for supplies, had military skills from Africa. | 13 | |
| 295804202 | Capitalism | an economic system based on private ownership of capital | 14 | |
| 295804203 | joint-stock company | A business in which investors pool their wealth for a common purpose, then share the profits | 15 | |
| 295804204 | Stock Exchange | A market for buying and selling stock | 16 | |
| 295804205 | Mercantilism | an economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought | 17 | |
| 295804206 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa. | 18 | |
| 295804207 | Atlantic Circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system. | 19 | |
| 295804208 | Middle passage | a voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies | 20 | |
| 295804209 | Triangular trade | trade system in which goods (such as weapons or liquor) were transported from Europe to Africa in exchange for gold and slaves, who were brought to the New World and whose products there (such as tobacco) were brought back to Europe | 21 | |
| 295804210 | Fixed Melancholy | deep psychological depression that slaves developed on the journey across the Atlantic; refused to eat and willed themselves to death | 22 | |
| 295804211 | Ayuba Sulleiman Diallo | he was a famous enslaved Muslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade. | 23 | |
| 295804212 | West Indies | The West Indies was the first place in the Americas reached by Columbus and the first part of the Americas where native populations collapsed. -England gave groups of private investors monopolies over trade to their West Indies colonies in exchange for the payment of annual fees | 24 | |
| 295804213 | Elmina and Luanda | The dutch west india company took the West African trading station of Elmina from the Portuguese in 1638 and took their port of Luanda on the Angolan coast in 1641. | 25 | |
| 295804214 | Barbados | easternmost of the West Indies about 300 miles north of Venezuela | 26 | |
| 295804215 | Saint Domingue | (modern-day Haiti) French sugar colony that had the only slave revolt that resulted in the abolition of slavery | 27 | |
| 295804216 | Gold coast | Region of the Atlantic coast of West Africa occupied by modern Ghana; named for its gold exports to Europe from the 1470s onward. | 28 | |
| 295804217 | Slave coast | A region of coastal West Africa adjacent rto the Gold Coast; it was the principal source of the slaves taken out of West Africa from the 16th to the early 19th centrury. | 29 | |
| 295804218 | Angola | a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean-one major port for slave and other trade. | 30 | |
| 295804219 | Navigation Acts | Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries. | 31 |
