Early Africa
Unlike later American chattel slavery, African slavery was built around acquiring slaves through this method.
What is warfare?
This European country was the first to establish direct maritime contact with West Africa in the 1400s.
What is Portugal?
Most enslaved Africans brought to the Americas ended up in this location.
What is the Caribbean?
This trade good was the primary cash crop that slaves were purchased to farm.
What is sugar?
Many Europeans used this religion to justify the slave trade, claiming they were spreading it to Africans.
What is Christianity?
These traditional African storytellers preserved history and culture through oral tradition.
What are griots?
This Kongo king converted to Catholicism and maintained correspondence with the Portuguese.
Who is King Afonso I?
These commodities were often traded by Europeans in exchange for enslaved Africans.
What are guns, textiles, and manufactured goods?
The term for the system where enslaved Africans were forced to work on plantations in the Americas, with all of their descendants born slaves as well.
What is chattel slavery?
Under American chattel slavery, this was the status of the children born from one free parent and one enslaved parent.
What is slave status?
Early Africans often lived in these types of family-based communities.
What are clans/lineages?
The introduction of these European weapons changed the balance of power among African kingdoms.
What are firearms?
The trade system connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas was called this.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This role on the plantation was typically held by an enslaved person who supervised other enslaved workers.
What is the driver?
Due to the large amount of this religious group in Pennsylvania, it became the first state to pass an anti-slavery law in America.
Who are the Quakers?
In many early African kingdoms, especially in Ghana and Egypt, rulers were believed to be chosen by the gods or to embody divine power — a concept known as this.
What is divine kingship?
European ships first came to Africa in the 1400s in search of a sea route to this continent.
What is Asia?
This European nation was the first to push for abolitionism.
What is Great Britain?
This was the term for the person responsible for overseeing the work of enslaved laborers on a plantation.
What is the overeseer?
America would abolish the slave trade this year, though it didn't completely ban slavery until the 13th amendment.
When is 1808?
This type of belief system, common in medieval Africa, involves the worship of both native African gods and aspects of outside religions like Islam and Christianity.
What is syncretism?
This term refers to European-controlled areas along the African coast used for trade, not full colonization.
What are trading posts/forts/enclaves?
The slave trade had a devastating impact on African societies by removing a large portion of this demographic.
Who are young men?
This term refers to the largest group of field workers on a plantation, often consisting of just the strongest and healthiest slave men.
What is the great gang?
The "burden" described in this phrase implied that Europeans had a responsibility to govern and develop non-European societies.
What is the White Man’s Burden?