African History and Concepts

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Abolitionist

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People who wanted to get rid of enslavement. They supported the movement to end enslavement.

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African

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A native or inhabitant of Africa

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African American

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An American whose ancestors were born in Africa

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African Civilizations

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Various pre-colonial African kingdoms

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Ancient Egypt

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A civilization that existed in the valley of the Nile River

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Ghana Empire

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Empire based in the modern-day southeast of Mauritania and western Mali, known for its wealth, military power, and control of the trans-Saharan gold trade

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Chattel Enslavement

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The enslaving and owning of human beings and their offspring as property, able to be bought, sold, and forced to work without wages, as distinguished from other systems of forced, unpaid, or low-wage labor also considered to be enslavement.

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Civilization

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The society, culture, and way of life of a particular area

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Civil War

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A war between factions in the same country

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Colonization

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The act of settling a group of people in a new place