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| 5027614154 | atlantic system | The network of trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin. | 0 | |
| 5027620730 | chartered company | Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies. | 1 | |
| 5027634674 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa. | 2 | |
| 5027647652 | 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 | |
| 5027653740 | driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation. | 4 | |
| 5027681642 | seasoning | An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines, such as that experienced by slaves newly arrived in the Americas. | 5 | |
| 5027686019 | manumission | A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave. | 6 | |
| 5027690368 | maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of a community of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America. | 7 | |
| 5027696448 | capitalism | An economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state. | 8 | |
| 5027704080 | 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 | 9 | |
| 5027712067 | Royal Africa Company | A group of investors began to export slaves directly to Virginia (no longer leftovers) monopoly until 1698; competition means lower prices, thus more planters were buying slaves. | 10 | |
| 5027717438 | Great Circuit | The network of Atlantic Ocean trade routes between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system. | 11 | |
| 5027722700 | Middle Passage | The part of the Great Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas. | 12 |
