Key Figures
These escaped freedom-seeking Africans were led by King Bayano who once managed to threaten Spanish control of Panama.
What are Maroons?
These regions received the largest numbers of captive Africans through the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What are the Caribbean and Brazil?
This Afro-Brazilian martial art conceals military training in dance.
What is capoeira?
This period saw the greatest influx of enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is 1701-1810?
Displaced Africans and their descendants created this type of culture in the Americas.
What is blended culture?
This Spanish Dominican Priest wrote the Suma de tratos y contratos to bring Spain’s overseas commerce in line with Catholic Doctrine.
Who was Tomas de Mercado?
Work here led to generally harsher conditions for enslaved peoples.
What are sugar plantations?
The name of the months-long voyage across the Atlantic that over 11 million slaves from the 15th-19th century endured.
In about this year the Portuguese “discovered” gold in the Brazilian highlands.
What is 1695?
This group of slaves did most of the intense forced labor work in the gold mines/sugar plantations.
What are mass slaves?
This enslaved African healer managed to obtain his freedom but was tried for witchcraft by the Portuguese Inquisition.
Who was Domingos Alvares?
The population of these urban areas was predominantly composed of either Africans or descendants of Africans.
What are port cities?
This term describes a fusion of African rhythms, Afro-Spanish lyrics and traditional Spanish musical themes.
What is negrillo?
During this period, the Quilombo of Palmares, the largest community of runaway slaves, became a confederation.
What is 1630-1654?
This group of slaves worked in various service activities.
What are auxiliary slaves?
One of two freed Cartagena-based healers tried for witchcraft by the Inquisition, this woman was born to two enslaved Africans and managed to survive multiple rounds of prosecution by the Inquisition.
Who was Paula de Eguiluz?
This was the largest runaway community in Brazil.
What is Palmares?
The Spanish term for runaway slave communities.
What is palenque?
By this date, sugar mills and plantations could be found all over Hispaniola.
What is 1519?
These groups in Spanish America and Brazil often played the role of savings and loan institutions for the enslaved.
What were religious brotherhoods or irmandades?
One of two freed Cartagena-based healers, this barber-surgeon by trade with nearly 50 clients, would denounce their rival who was another prominent healer in the region.
Who was Diego Lopez?
This city had the largest enslaved black population in the Atlantic world.
What is Rio de Janeiro?
In the Spanish Empire, this term described the the legal process of self-purchase initiated by an enslaved person.
What is coartacion?
In this year, England outlawed the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is 1808?
This many people lived in the maroon settlement, Palmares, at its height.
What is 10,000 to 20,000?