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What is the Atlantic System?
What are Chartered Companies?
Groups of private investors who paid an annual fee to France and England in exchange for a monopoly over trade to the West Indies colonies.
What was the purpose of the Dutch West India Company?
To conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.
Define Plantocracy.
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What is a Driver in the context of slavery?
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What does Seasoning refer to?
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What is Manumission?
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Who is referred to as a Maroon?
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What is Capitalism?
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Define Mercantilism.
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What was the Royal African Company?
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What is the Atlantic Circuit?
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What does Middle Passage refer to?
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Who were the Songhai?
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What is the Hausa?
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What was the kingdom of Bornu?
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Study Notes
Atlantic System
- Network of trading links established after 1500, facilitating the movement of goods, wealth, people, and cultures around the Atlantic Basin.
Chartered Companies
- Private investor groups paying an annual fee for monopolies on trade in West Indies colonies held by France and England.
Dutch West India Company
- Trading company established by the Dutch government for conducting merchants' trade across the Americas and Africa.
Plantocracy
- Wealthy landowners in West Indian colonies dominating the ownership of slaves and land, particularly prominent in the eighteenth century.
Driver
- Privileged male slave responsible for overseeing slave gangs and ensuring productivity on plantations.
Seasoning
- Challenging adjustment period for newly arrived slaves in the Americas, involving acclimatization to climate, diseases, and labor routines.
Manumission
- Legal granting of freedom to an individual slave.
Maroon
- Runaway slave, often part of a community of escaped slaves in the West Indies and South America.
Capitalism
- Economic system characterized by large financial institutions such as banks and stock exchanges, evolving from commercial capitalism to industrial capitalism.
Mercantilism
- Government policies in Europe aimed at promoting trade between colonies and their mother countries while accumulating precious metals, regulated by acts like the British Navigation Acts.
Royal African Company
- English trading company chartered in 1672 to manage trade along the Atlantic coast of Africa.
Atlantic Circuit
- Interconnected trade routes linking Europe, Africa, and the Americas, forming the basis of the Atlantic system.
Middle Passage
- Segment of the Atlantic Circuit dedicated to transporting enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
Songhai
- An influential kingdom and empire in West Africa, notable for its trans-Saharan trade; at its zenith in the sixteenth century, extending from the Atlantic to Hausa territories.
Hausa
- Agricultural and trading people from central Sudan in West Africa, maintaining autonomy until their conquest by the Sokoto Caliphate in the early nineteenth century.
Bornu
- Significant West African kingdom at the southern Sahara, pivotal in trans-Saharan trade and the spread of Islam, existing from the ninth to the nineteenth century.
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