Vocab A
Definition: the mass dispersion of peoples from Africa during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
What is the African diaspora?
Definition: a system, which allowed people to be considered legal property, and to be bought, sold and owned forever. Supported by the United States and European powers from the 16th–18th centuries.
What is chattel slavery?
Definition: an involuntary or forced movement of a person or people away from their home or home region.
This group of people were enslaved after their empire was conquered by another empire.
Prisoners of war
Describe slave ship conditions.
Awful food and hygiene, sitting in waste, packed on ships, beaten, sexually assaulted, force-fed, etc.
Definition: the practice of acquiring full or partial control over another country or land, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
What is colonialism?
Definition: the process by which an ethnic group is forced to abandon its language, culture, and customs. It is the destruction of the culture of a dominated group and its replacement by the culture of the dominating group.
What is deculturalization?
Definition: a commodity, article, or service brought in from abroad for sale.
What is an import?
This group of people were enslaved themselves, or sometimes sold a child into slavery.
People in debt
What was traded from Europe to Africa? What was traded from Africa, and where did they go? What was exported from the colonies to Europe?
Guns, iron, beer - slaves went to The Caribbean or Latin America - Sugar, tobacco, cotton, rum, raw materials
Definition: the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people across the Atlantic ocean.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
Definition: an economic system in which private actors own and control property in accord with their own interests, and demand and supply freely set prices in markets.
What is capitalism?
Definition: the three-legged route that made up the Atlantic slave trade ▲
How is chattel slavery worse than ancient forms of slavery?
Seen as property, usually split up families, owned for life, born into slavery, unable to climb social ladder, slaveowners could abuse slaves however/as frequently as they wanted.
What was a major effect of the slave trade?
Significantly less men & younger people in Africa - broken families - mass death due to extremely difficult Middle Passage and slavery conditions - trauma - major decline for African economy - increase in violence in Africa due to European guns and fear of being enslaved
Definition: society's categorization of its people into groups based on socioeconomic factors like wealth, income, race, education, ethnicity, gender, occupation, social status, or derived power.
What is social stratification?
Definition: to ship commodities to another country for sale, exchange, etc.
What is an export or to export?
What is an example of chattel slavery?
These are some of the roles slaves had in ancient times.
What is teachers, entertainers, manual laborers, domestic servants?
What was a major cause of the Transatlantic slave trade?
Capitalism, greed, money, Europeans wanting to generate more wealth, Europeans wanting to trade/produce new goods, Africa's attractive natural resources and already enslaved Africans
Definition: the study of the effects of Earth's geography on politics and international relations.
What is geopolitics?
Definition: the stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade.
If someone believes in a free-market economic system, then they believe in ______.
What is capitalism?
This religion in ancient Africa encouraged slave owners to free their slaves
What is Islam?
Consider the slave trade, capitalism, and how slaves were treated, such as on slave ships. What might explain the reason as to why Europe received the greatest amount and variety of goods?
Capitalism fueled Europe's greed - Europe starts & dominates Transatlantic Slave Trade - Slaves were totally packed on ships and forced to exercise to maximize "good product" for trade to generate more $$ for Europeans - Europeans rigged slave trade to benefit them most - Capitalism = people at the top benefitting from exploiting people at the bottom