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What had a disastrous impact on Native American populations?
European Diseases
What is the name of the Spanish priest who proposed using enslaved Africans as workers?
Bartolomé de Las Casas
What is the estimated death rate among Africans during the Middle Passage?
One out of every Six individuals
How many enslaved Africans were sent to the colonies of New Spain?
2 million
What provided a safe haven—a location not entirely under the slaveholders' control?
Families
What term describes people's natural defense against disease?
Immune
In what year did the Spanish government approve the sale of slaves in its colonies?
1510
Between the 1520s and the 1860s, over 12 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic as slaves. How many survived the voyage and made it to the Americas?
10 million
How many Africans were enslaved in British and French territory in the Caribbean and Latin America?
3 million
What was a second refuge for slaves?
Religion
What was the name of the Spanish author who reported in 1548 on the destruction of Hispaniola's Native Americans?
Fernández de Oviedo
How many years after slavery was permitted did the first full cargo ship of Africans arrive in the Americas?
Eight
The slave trade resulted in Africans being shipped all across the New World. What was it known as?
African Diaspora
How many Africans were enslaved in Britain's North American colonies, which eventually became the United States?
600,000
What was the primary religion of enslaved Africans, incorporating traditional features from African religions?
Christian
When Columbus arrived in North America, how many Native Americans lived north of Mexico?
10 million
The vast majority of enslaved people were apprehended in Africa's interior, often by Africans who profited from selling slaves to Europeans. The prisoners were shackled around their necks and marched to the coast. How lengthy was the ship's journey in the transatlantic slave trade?
1,000 miles
What is the scattering of a people known as?
Diaspora
What did the law regard enslaved Africans to be?
Property
What was a common form of religious expression among slaves? Slaves utilized songs and folktales to express their feelings of sadness, hope, misery, and joy.
Spirituals
What was a key component of the colonial economic structure?
Plantation Agriculture
What was the name given to the transatlantic voyage that enslaved Africans were compelled to endure?
Middle Passage
How many enslaved Africans were sent to Brazil?
4 million
Enslaved Africans faced heavy penalties for trivial acts as breaking a tool. They were frequently tortured and even killed if you were regarded as what?
Runaways
What were key social occasions in slave communities known as?
Dances