Vocabulary
A person that lived in a colony.
Colonist
What country had the largest empire or the most colonies?
England, UK, Britain
The concept of owning another human being.
Slavery
1.) The passage from Europe to Africa transporting manufactured goods.
2.) The passage from Africa to the Americas transporting slaves.
3.) The passage from the Americas to Europe transporting raw materials.
Triangle Trade
Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the dying; horror the corposant and compass rose.
There is a storm going on, sharks following a ship and people think they are seeing fire on the ship.
These were people that moved to the colonies to escape religious persecution.
Pilgrims
Tea was the main reason Britain colonized this area.
China
This is a large farm that produces cash crops and where the majority of slaves were forced to work.
Plantation
The three main products that were produced in the American colonies
Cotton, Sugarcane, and tobacco
That there was hardly room 'tween-decks for half the sweltering cattle stowed spoon-fashion there; that some went mad of thirst and tore their flesh and sucked the blood.
How are the slaves stored?
Side by side, super close
To buy and take into a country.
Import
This was the reason that Portugal and Spain were required to share the new territory they found. Everything to the left would belong to Spain, everything to the right would belong to Portugal.
The Treaty of Tordesillas.
This is where the majority of African Slaves were purchased.
Western Africa
The products that were taken from Europe to Africa
Manufactured goods: guns, rum
What was happening to the slaves
They were on fire
To sell or take a product out of a country.
Export
This major event caused the territory that France owned to be given to the British
The French and Indian War or Seven Years War
Where were slaves kept during the voyage to the new world.
The bottom of the ship, the hull, between the decks of the ship.
Raw Resources
Blacks rebellious. Crew uneasy. Our linguist says their moaning is a prayer for death, ours and their own. Some try to starve themselves. Lost three this morning leaped with crazy laughter to the waiting sharks, sang as they went under.
What did the African slaves do?
They prayed, they leapt to their death, and they starved themselves.
This is the economic theory during the 17th and 18th century. It is based on a countries acquirement of gold and silver and maintaining a favorable balance of exporting more than it is importing. The Europeans used this to increase the wealth of a nation or empire.
Mercantilism
This product that was found in the Belgium Congo was a large success in Europe and led to the production of many things such as tires.
Rubber
Olaudah Equiano
This is the name of the people that would steal/buy and transport slaves.
Slavers
8 bells, I cannot sleep, for I am sick with fear, but writing eases fear a little since still my eyes can see these words take shape upon the page & so I write, as one would turn to exorcism.
Why does the narrator write?
Because he is scared.