Atlantic System and Slavery Concepts

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.

To conduct its merchants' trade in the Americas and Africa.

<p>Rich men who owned most of the slaves and most of the land in the West Indian colonies, especially in the eighteenth century.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A privileged male slave whose job was to ensure that a slave gang did its work on a plantation.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An often difficult period of adjustment to new climates, disease environments, and work routines experienced by newly arrived slaves in the Americas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A slave who ran away from his or her master, often part of a community of runaway slaves.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The economic system of large financial institutions that developed in early modern Europe, characterized by the trading system of commercial capitalism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>European government policies designed to promote overseas trade and accumulate precious metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A trading company chartered by the English government in 1672 to conduct its merchants' trade on the Atlantic coast of Africa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The network of trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas that underlay the Atlantic system.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The part of the Atlantic Circuit involving the transportation of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in West Africa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>An agricultural and trading people of central Sudan in West Africa.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A powerful West African kingdom important in trans-Saharan trade and the spread of Islam.</p> Signup and view all the answers