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8659902409Niger RiverA geographic location near which the city of Gao thrived and the Songhay people resided0
8659902410CreoleA mother tongue formed from contact of a European language with a local languages1
8659902411BarracoonsSlave castles2
8659902412Gullah/GeecheeCreole languages of South Carolina and Georgia in places where slaves composed 75% of the population3
8659902413SanteriaAfrican-Christian syncretic religion in Cuba4
8659902414VodunAfrican-Christian syncretic religion in Haiti5
8659902415CandombléAfrican-Christian syncretic religion in Brazil6
8659902416GumboA dish consisting of rich and okra with African roots popular in southern US7
8659902417PolygynyPractice of taking more than one wife8
8659902418Atlantic trading system (aka triangular trade)Transport of goods and Africans between West Africa, America, and Europe9
8659902419African DiasporaDispersion of Africans out of Africa10
8659902420Sunni AliRuler of Songhay people and creator of Songhay Empire11
8659902421AbolitionAnnulment of slavery12
8659902422Dahomey and OyoAfrican societies that conducted slave raids and became richer from slave trade with Europeans13
8659902423Vasco da GamaPortuguese explorer who invaded the Swahili city states of East Africa in 149814
8659902424Ile de Gorée (Gorée Island)A site on the coast of Senegal where the House of Slaves stands15
8659902425Saint DomingueFrench colony on Caribbean island16
8659902426Middle PassageA stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic Slave Trade17
8659902427Plantations in the West IndiesA major center of the Atlantic economy in terms of sugar plantations, African slaves, and European capital18
8659902428The Tobacco EraTobacco is used by Amerindians for recreation and medicine; found a new market among seventeenth-century Europeans19
8659902429Dutch West Indian CompanyTrading company chartered by the Dutch government to conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa20
8659902430The Slave TradeThe expansion of sugar plantation in the West Indies required a sharp increase in the volume of the slave trade from Africa21
8659902431Indentured ServantsServants who signed a contract by which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to Virginia and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter22
8659902432PlantocracyIn the West Indian colonies, the rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land, especially in the 18th century23
8659902433DriverA privileged male slave whose job was to ensue that a slave gang did its work on a plantation24
8659902434ManumissionThe act of an owner freeing his or her slaves25
8659902435MaroonA slave who ran away from his or her master26
8659902436CapitalismThe economic system of large financial institutions (banks, stocks, exchanges, investment companies) that first developed in early modern Europe27
8659902437MercantilismThe system that sought to monopolize the profits produced in colonial empires by controlling trade and accumulating capital in the form of gold and silver28
8659902438Royal African Company (RAC)An English mercantile company set up by the Stuart family and City of London merchants to trade along the west coast of Africa29
8659902439Atlantic CircuitThe network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system30
8659902441African Slave TradeThe flow of sugar to Europe depended on the flow of slaves from Africa31
8659902442African Participation in the Slave TradeAfrican merchants were very discriminating about merchandise they took in exchange for slaves or goods32
8659902443West Africa and IslamNorth Africa had become part of the Islamic world during the Islamic expansion33
8659902444The Islamic Slave TradeSubstantial slave trade to the Islamic North (Middle East and India) from Sub-Saharan Africa through Red Sea and Indian Ocean(1600-1800 C.E.)34
8659902445Atlantic Vs. Muslim Slave TradesThe Atlantic trade carried about 8 million Africans to the Americas (1550-1800 C.E.) The Islamic trade to North Africa and the Middle East transported around 2 million African captives35

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