Vocabulary
A name given to an escaped African slave or their descendant living in the Americas and the Caribbean.
What is a Maroon
A community of Maroons (e.g. Palmares)
What are quilombos
This form of produce was incredibly lucrative and non-essential
What are cash crops
This man led the abolitionist movement in parliament
Who is William Wilberforce
This crop still uses human trafficking as labor to this day and is commonly grown in Africa
What is Cacao
The Largest long-distance forced movement of people in recorded history from the 16th to 19th centuries (1500s – 1800s).
What is the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
First and only slave revolt resulting in its own nation
What is the Haitian Revolution
The value of money going down over time
What is inflation
This person gained their freedom from slavery and wrote the first internationally popular slave narrative
Who is Olaudah Equiano
This idea started during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and is still prominent today. It is the idea that physical superficial characteristics make someone "superior" or "inferior" to others.
What is racism
Mountain responsible for the majority of the world's silver starting in the 1500s
What is Potosi
This form of martial art was disguised as dance to slavers in order for enslaved people to train in self defense.
What is capoeira
The Caribbean had ideal conditions to grow this crop which was addictive due to its sweet nature but also was a major driver for the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade
What is sugarcane
This person helped about 700 enslaved people escape from the Confederacy during the Civil War
Who is Harriet Tubman
This movie starring Johnny Depp depicted pirates and pieces of eight
What is Pirates of the Caribbean
A process of international integration arising from the interchange of products, ideas, and culture.
What is globalization
This religion had a ceremony that kicked off the Haitian Revolution.
What is Vodou
What are pieces of eight (or ocho reales)
This person is the last known survivor of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trease
Who is Cudjoe Lewis
This game released in 2025 was controversial for being set in Fuedal Japan and having a African Samurai.
What is Assassin's Creed: Shadows
The idea that increasing consumption of goods and services purchased in the market is always a desirable goal and that a person's wellbeing and happiness depends fundamentally on obtaining consumer goods and material possessions.
What is consumerism
This revolt happened while enslaved people were being transported. The first person the enslaved people killed was the cook due to the incredible cruelty he showed them. They were later pardoned of all crimes by the U.S. supreme court due to them being transported after the outlawing of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade in the U.S
What is the Amistad revolt
Products that increase in value when the demand for related products increases
What are complementary goods
This person led a conquest to attempt and recapture Haiti after it gained its independence but failed.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
This important supreme court decision rules that people cannot be segregated by schools
What is Brown vs. Board of Education