Termonology
A large farm with many workers
plantation
The first European to "discover" the "New World" for the country of Spain
Christopher Columbus
Name of the map that showed what was traded between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
Triangular Trade
The series of "holy wars" the Europeans embarked on to conquer the Holy Land from the Muslims
Crusades
The term for physical work done by hand often performed by slaves
manual labor
What was the main reason for the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Profit
The term for slave ships
Slavers
The European who called for explorers to find a water passage to Asia
Prince Henry the Navigator
The name of the trade route from Africa to the Americas on which slaves were carried as cargo and traded.
The Middle Passage
What was the average length of the journey by slave ships from Africa to the Americas?
9 weeks
An African American who was captured and sold into slavery at the age of 10 or 11 and later wrote about his capture and life as a slave
Olaudah Equiano
What was produced by the first plantations in the "New World" where slave labor was used?
Sugar
The process of preparing Africans to be good, productive slaves
Seasoning slaves
The first European to bring a large group of African slaves back to Europe
Lançarote de Freitas
What goods were brought from the Americas to be traded in Europe?
sugar & timber
The number of slaves that arrived alive in the Americas on slave ships?
10-12 million
What was the greatest impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade on Africa?
the human cost
The term for people who were often used on plantations to manage and direct the work of slaves
Overseers
An escaped enslaved African of Jamaica
Maroon
European explorer who first sailed to India and back in 1498
Vasco da Gama
What goods were sent from Europe to be traded in Africa?
manufactured goods, guns & rum
What 4 things did Spanish conquistadors use to conquer the Americas?
guns, steel weapons & armor, disease, and native allies
What were the reasons European's switched from using Native Americans for forced labor to African slaves?
African slaves were less likely to succumb to European diseases and more familiar with European farming methods
Who were generally the people that captured Africans to sell to the European slave factories
Black Africans
The practice of freeing slaves
manumission
The African American founder of the city of Chicago
Jean Baptist Point du Sable
Which country led the way in explorations for a sea route to Asia?
Portugal
What are the 3 categories of slaves in the West Indies?
Which of the 3 were the most expensive?
New Africans, Old Africans, Creoles
Most expensive: Creoles
What was the impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade on the Americas?
played vital role in settlement, economic benefit, & spread of African culture
What slave ship is famous for murdering their African slaves (cargo) to collect insurance money?
Slave Ship Zong
The scattering of a people across a great distance which results in the spread of culture and beliefs
diaspora
A North African slave who accompanied Spanish explorers in what is today the southwestern United States
Estevanico
What plantation became the blueprint for all plantations in the "New World?"
The Sugar Plantations on the Island of Madeira
What was the name of the slave ship used by anti-slavery groups to show how inhumane the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was?
The Brookes
What led to the dramatic increase in the number of African slaves being sent to Brazil?
The rise of sugar plantations and the discovery of gold
What region in the Americas received the greatest number of African Slaves?
Brazil