African Continent
Largest empire in African history.
What is the Songhai Empire?
Trade route from African coast to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
Cause of death for vast majority of Native Americans.
Religion historically at odds with Christianity.
What is Islam?
People of mixed-race and mixed-culture along the Atlantic coast.
Primary source of slaves in African society.
What are prisoners of war?
Creature that formed a symbiotic relationship with slave ships.
What are sharks?
First New World destination for incoming African slaves.
Biblical narrative used to justify enslavement of blacks.
What is the Curse of Ham?
Period of acclimation and training once slaves arrived in the New World.
What is "seasoning?"
Place where merchants traveled to sell slaves.
Slaves who journeyed across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World.
What are saltwater slaves?
Most valuable but labor intensive crop produced in the New World.
What is sugar cane?
Sense of brotherhood among all Christian, European countries.
What is an Eastern European identity?
Acts meant to regulate the Negroes on the British Plantations.
What are Slave Codes?
Sense of brotherhood among all Africans, regardless of region.
What is a Pan-African identity?
Captains who attempted to fill cargo holds with as many slaves as possible.
Europeans who worked for plantation owners under a contract.
What are indentured servants?
Concept that places whites as parents and Africans as children.
Paternalism
Small traces of African culture that survived the displacement of slavery.
What are "Africanisms?"
Definitive moment of transition from free African to dehumanized slave.
What is "the social death?"
Form of exercise slaves were forced to perform.
What is dancing?
Who is De las Casas?
Hierarchical structure of all life with God at the top and Africans at the bottom.
What is the Great Chain of Being?
Legal phrasing that made slavery virtually inescapable.