Origins and Development
Known for many debates around its construction, specifically about whether slave labor was used to build it.
What are the Pyramids of Giza?
A slave fort in the capital of Ghana (Hint: not Elmina or Cape Coast Castle.)
What is Christianbourg/Osu Castle?
He wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of __ in 1789.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This North American city's port (among others) served as a commercial port for many industries, including the slave trade.
What is Boston?
One of the contributing factors to the development of the slave trade, coinciding with Europe's Age of Conquest.
What is the power vacuum/political instability left by the fall of the Songhai Empire?
A British slave ship notorious for an internal diagram made by abolitionists.
What is the Brookes (1788)?
These artists wrote "Slave Song" and "Redemption Song," respectively.
Who are 1) Sade and 2) Bob Marley and the Wailers?
According to Anderson, this social class was a result of increasing interethnic conflict motivated by the slave trade in Africa.
What is the "warrior slave"?
The first country to establish "forts" on the West African coast and the name of it.
What is Portugal and Elmina?
The majority of enslaved African peoples came to plantations in this country.
What is Brazil?
A project designed to preserve the voices of formerly enslaved African-Americans.
What is the Million Voices Project?
European goods that were exchanged for slaves.
What is rum, guns, and textiles?
The distinction between forms of slavery in Africa before European intervention and the trans-Atlantic slave trade (#1).
What is slavery being a motivation for war/conquest/conflict rather than a byproduct of it?
The process through which forcibly enslaved Africans were broken into slave labor.
What is "seasoning"?
He was the interviewed man we listened to.
Who is George Johnson?
An economic pattern/evolution Rodney argues occurred in many societies, including Africa.
What is communalism --> feudalism --> slavery?
The distinction between forms of slavery in Africa before European intervention and the trans-Atlantic slave trade (#2).
What is being built on racist ideology?
What is "tight packing"?
This U.S. event happened the same year Olaudah Equiano published his memoir.
What is the ratification of the U.S. Constitution?
This plaque was put above one of the doors in Elmina Castle.
What is the "Door of No Return?"