Lesson 8: Slavery in the Americas

someone who captures or holds another person for purposes of slavery, such as a plantation owner

• slave trade

• mother

• enslaver

• overseer

a type of religious song that developed among enslaved Africans and that expressed deep emotion

• spiritual

• political

• social

• enslavement

the business of capturing, transporting, and selling people as slaves in exchange for goods

• enslaver

• slave trade

• triangular trade

• Middle Passage

the voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to the West Indies and the American continents

• Triangular Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Slave Trade

• middle passage

being owned and controlled by another person; being a slave

• chattel slavery

• extermination

• banishment

• enslavement

the exchange of slaves and goods between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa, using shipping routes across the Atlantic Ocean

• slave trade

• triangular trade

• columbian exchange

• middle passage

a person who was in charge of the work of slaves and could punish them for disobeying him

• enslaver

• civilian reviewer

• overseer

• enslavement

a public sale in which slaves were sold to the highest bidders

• enslaver

• plantation

• flash sale

• auction