Key Terms
A chattel slave is an enslaved person who is owned for ever and whose children and children's children are automatically enslaved. Chattel slaves are individuals treated as complete property, to be bought and sold.
Chattel Slavery
Human migration flows in which the movers have no choice but to relocate.
Forced Migration
people of African descent living in the USA
African Americans
Schooner seized by Africans
were a mutiny took place abroad where captives took over the ship to escape enslavement
La Amistad (1839)
An institution with generally beneficial effects. Was often used to describe the American Slave Trade as it "benefitted" those that were enslaved by providing food, shelter, and Christianity.
Benign institution
The expansion of countries into other countries where they establish settlements and control the people
Colonization
Ladinos we're the First Africans in territory, that became the United States
They are from a generation know as Atlantic creoles(work as intermediaries before the predominance of chattel slavery)
Play the role of conquistadors (colonizing soldiers) enslaved laborers (mining, agriculture)free skilled workers and artisans
Ladinos/Atlantic creoles
Gather captives to enslave, send them on a tightly packed boat, go to the Americas
Slave Ships/Middle Passage
United States vs. La Amistad, a supreme court case in which the mutiny abroad the La Amistad by captured Africans decided they deserved their freedom.
La Amistad Case
the trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
domestic slave trade
descendants of the people who first lived in a region. natives of an area who have been conquered or dominated by others who came later
indigenous people
Sixteenth-century Spaniards who fanned out across the Americas, from Colorado to Argentina, eventually conquering the Aztec and Incan empires.
Conquistadores (conquerors)
primary sources from people who experienced enslavement, often poems, diary entries, biographies, pamphlets, etc.
Enslaved Narratives
one of the defendants of the La Amistad mutiny case
Segbe Pieh
a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.
cash crop
The brutal system of trading African Slaves from Africa to the Americas. It changed the economy, politics, and environment. It affected Africa, Europe, and America. It implies that enslaved people were used for cash crops and created a whole new economy.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
"First African-American" who was part of a small group of African freeman who came to the Americas to take part in the Spanish conquest
Juan Garrido
Name given to the spread of African peoples across the Atlantic via the slave trade.
African Diaspora
massive sales of enslaved people, often separated families from each other, and were some of the first experiences of enslaved people arriving in the Americas.
Slave Auctions
"Driving force" of Southern economy; coined by James Hammond; "upper" South--> "lower"/"deep" South b/c of westward expansion
King Cotton
illegal movement of goods - drugs, weapons, humans. Forced movement, labor, sexual exploitation, etc.
trafficking
A former enslaved man who was with Cabeza de Vaca on the Texas coast. After me made it back to Mexico city, her was forced to go with Fray Marcos to look for Cibola. He was killed by natives after scouting a pueblo.
Estevanico (Esteban)
rebellion
running away
work slow-downs and destruction of property
resistance to enslavement
the belief that whites are biologically different and superior to people of other races
white supremacy
a machine invented by Eli Whitney; revolutionized cotton production by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber.
Cotton Gin, 1793