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    Chattel Slavery

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    Trafficking especially when these slaves provide sexual services. Indentureship Indentured laborers were assigned contracts in which they were paid wages to work for a specified period of time. After the contracts expired they were given the option to return to their homelands or to receive a plot of land. Many chose to stay. Indentureship was supposed to differ from slavery‚ however‚ the servants were treated as harshly as the slaves Chattel- African slaves were treated as commodities System

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    During the start of the transatlantic slave trade‚ African religious beliefs and practices were varied and large in number. A great portion of the continent had‚ for centuries‚ fallen under Islamic influence. Regardless of this diversity‚ there were some common threads across different cultural groups. For example‚ West African societies shared a belief in an omnipotent creator‚ a chief immortal among less powerful gods‚ to whom they prayed and made sacrifices. Through laws and customs honoring the

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    Chapter 20 Course Notes

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    and the Africans in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade I. Introduction A. Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua – symbol of slavery 1. Muslim trader > African slavery > African slave trade > Missionary B. Impact of outsiders on Africa 1. Islam first‚ then African developed at own pace‚ West had big impact C. Influence of Europe 1. Path of Africa becomes linked to European world economy 2. Diaspora – mass exodus of people leaving homeland 3. Slave trade dominated interactions 4. Not all

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    African relationship where most of time treated the same way. If you weren’t already here already‚ the whites brought you over in a boat. Know as the Trans Atlantic slave trade or Indian slave trade. Indians help shaped African Americans “way of life within the circumstances that slavery forced on them.” The British began to take over the Atlantic coastal. We all know the American Indians were here first and spoke different languages than the others. The Indians lived different for example the British

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    Mixed Race History

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    regarding this topic‚ yet Mixed-Race people seem to fall between the cracks of the over-discussed and typical themes in history—such as slavery‚ the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade‚ and the creation of the United States Constitution. Many know of the enslavement of African American’s in Jamestown‚ Virginia along with knowing the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade began in the 15th century‚ and that the United States Constitution was written during the Constitutional Convention and signed September 17th‚ 1787.

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    economic change or explanation justifies the claim that the late 1400s mark the beginning of a new period in world history? Age of Exploration – – America incorporated into Global Trade Network 9. What is an economic similarity among European colonial empires in the Americas in the period 1450–1750? African slaves‚ forced labor American Indians 10. What European development is most closely associated with the revolution in Haiti? The French Revolution 11. Define Social Darwinism- fight White

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    African slaves were brought to the North American colony of Jamestown‚ Virginia‚ in 1619. Slaves were considered property which caused them unique disruptions‚ frustrations‚ and pain. They depended on their owners‚ worked for long hours‚ and had harsh punishments set in place for those who disobeyed. To make it even worse‚ families held the haunting fear that their families would be torn apart at any moment. The development of the New World led to the emergence of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. There

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    ships of the Middle Passage during the 17th century. The Middle passage is an historical term indicating trade with three ports or region in which millions of West African captives were captured and sold into slavery against their will; this was the journey from West Africa to the Americas. Dehumanizing is to deprive someone of their human qualities‚ personality or spirit. There was a need for slaves in the Caribbean to work due to the advantage of the sugar revolution. The Spanish had enslaved the indigenous

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    Discussion Board 4

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    primarily on the trade of items such as gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns. Then things took a turn for the worse when trade turned to from gold‚ ivory‚ cloth and guns to humans. What is meant by enslavement? Enslavements is the making slaves of your captives or forcibly dispossessing an owner of property (people). How did the plantation system make slavery a lucrative business? The plantation made slavery a lucrative business because slavery anchored merchant capitalism. The slaves enriched planters

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    plantation is costly and timely‚ settlers and the elite in Britain attempted to achieve maximum profits with little or no pay towards the workers. through importing slaves into the colonies; mostly through the trans-atlantic slave trade‚ the British and their colonies were able to gain large amounts of revenue through the hard work of these slaves. The men and women that were transferred from their homes by the Royal African Company; as well as local African American people‚ put in all the effort they had

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