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| 8573803013 | Atlantic System | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic System. | 0 | |
| 8573848639 | 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 | |
| 8573803014 | Dutch West India Company | Trading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa | 2 | |
| 8573806059 | 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 | |
| 8573848640 | Driver | A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave going did its work on a plantation. | 4 | |
| 8573848641 | 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 | |
| 8573850686 | Manumission | A grant of legal slave freedom to an individual slave | 6 | |
| 8573850687 | Maroon | A slave who ran away from his or her master. Often a member of runaway slaves in the West Indies and South America | 7 | |
| 8573850688 | Capitalism | The economic system of large financial institutions -banks, stock exchanges, investment companies - that first developed in early modern. A system of free trade with less regulation. | 8 | |
| 8573850689 | Mercantilism | European government policies of 16th century, 17th century, and 18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade between a country and its colonies and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland. | 9 | |
| 8573853423 | Royal African Company | A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa | 10 | |
| 8573853424 | Great Circuit | The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system | 11 | |
| 8573862661 | Middle Passage | The part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the ATlantic to the Americas | 12 | |
| 8573862662 | Songhai | A people, language, kingdom , and empire in Western Sudan in West Africa. Stretched from Atlantic to the land of Hausa | 13 | |
| 8573862663 | Bornu | A powerful West African Kingdom of the southern edge of the Sahara in the central Sudan. Which was important in trans-Saharan trade. | 14 | |
| 8573868939 | Navigation Acts | Requirements in trade that forced an entity to trade with Britain | 15 | |
| 8574103652 | Grands Blancs | Slave owners | 16 | |
| 8574146695 | New Amsterdam | The region that later became New York | 17 |
