African American Studies Unit Two Vocabulary

A dispersion of people from their homeland.

• Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

• Diaspora

A system of enforced servitude in which some people are owned by other people.

• Indentured Servitude

• Slavery

• Chattel

• Columbian Exchange

An item of personal, movable property; slave.

• Chattel

• Slavery

• Creole

• Coffle

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies.

• Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

A group of prisoners or slaves chained in a line.

• Mutiny

• Creole

• Coffle

• Rebellion

The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and technologies between the Americas and the rest of the world following Columbus's voyages.

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Columbian Exchange

• Middle Passage

• Zong Massacre

The trading of African people to the colonies of the New World in and around the Atlantic ocean.

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

• Amistad (1839)

A fairly small-scale commerce in enslaved people that flourished especially from 1100 to 1400, exporting West African slaves across the Sahara for sale in Islamic North Africa.

• Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

• Middle Passage

• Caboceers

A plan that called for loading as many slaves on a ship as possible.

• Caboceers

• Mutiny

• Tight Packing

• Loose Packing

Slaves took control of a ship in Cuba and were intercepted by Americans. After a SC trial in which John Q. Adams argued for them, they were allowed to go to their intended destination, Africa.

• Zong Massacre

• Amistad

• Rebellion

• Creole