Atlantic Slave Trade
This writer published Homegoing, a novel that features multi-generational perspectives of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Who is Yaa Gyasi?
The Seven Years’ War ended in this year.
What is 1763?
These three Native nations dominated the Gulf South
Who are the Creeks, Choctaws, and Chickasaws?
Which European country was pushed off mainland North America after the Seven Years’ War?
France
This New Orleans merchant used his money and connections to send Spanish supplies to the American rebels.
Who was Oliver Pollock?
This fort--a key port for the Atlantic Slave Trade--is located in present-day Ghana.
What is Cape Coast Castle?
These two European powers were the main rivals fighting for control of territory in North America during the Seven Years’ War.
What are Britain and France?
This Chickasaw leader promoted peace and diplomacy to protect his people
Who is Payamataha?
Which merchant became Congress’s official agent in Spanish Louisiana and helped channel Spanish aid to the Revolution?
Who is Oliver Pollock?
This Scottish settler remained loyal to Britain because his land, government position, and wealth depended on the empire.
Who was James Bruce?
This number of West Africans were enslaved and trafficked to the New World (North, Central, South America, and the Caribbean) between 1525-1866.
What is 12.5 million West Africans?
This 1763 agreement officially ended the Seven Years’ War between Britain and France.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This Native confederacy was made up of many towns that often made their own decisions
What is the Creek Confederacy?
Which British colony on the Gulf Coast remained largely loyal during the American Revolution?
What is West Florida?
This Chickasaw leader maintained an alliance with Britain but tried to keep his people out of direct fighting.
Who was Payamataha?
This number of West Africans were trafficked to North America. The remainder of the 12.5 million were sent to Caribbean, and Central and South America.
What is 450,000 West Africans?
After the war, Britain created these two new colonies from territory acquired from Spain and France along the Gulf Coast.
What are East Florida and West Florida?
This 1763 British policy restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachians and became important to Creek efforts to protect their land.
What is the Proclamation Line of 1763?
Which empire’s involvement most clearly shows DuVal’s argument that the Revolution was not simply Britain versus the Americans, since it entered the war to pursue its own imperial goals?
What is Spain?
This Creek diplomat acted as a go-between for the Creek Confederacy and British officials during the Revolution.
Who was Alexander McGillivray?
In this year, Thomas Jefferson signed the Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves, banning the import of enslaved Africans in North America and dramatically curtailing U.S. participation in the international slave trade. The illegal smuggling of enslaved people, however, continued in the Deep South.
What is 1808?
This British proclamation restricted colonial settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
At Mobile in 1777, this Chickasaw leader pledged loyalty to Britain but brought only forty Chickasaws while secretly working toward a wider peace.
Who is Payamataha?
Which Spanish governor strengthened Louisiana while secretly supporting the American rebels?
Who is Bernardo de Gálvez?
This Spanish governor secretly assisted the American rebels before leading Spain’s campaign against British West Florida.
Who was Bernardo de Gálvez?