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| Olaudah Equiano – Also known as Gustavus Vassa. He is one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the abolition of the slave trade. His writings focused on the cruelty of the slave system. (British?) |
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| Gabriel Prosser – A slave in Virginia, who planned a slave rebellion. |
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| Denmark Vesey – A slave, who planned what would have been the largest slave rebellions in the United States. (South Carolina) Wanted to Capture Charleston and depart to Haiti. |
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| Nat Turner – An American slave whose slave rebellion in Virginia was the most remarkable instances of black resistance to enslavement. |
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| Toussaint L'Ouverture – An important leader in the Haiti Revolution. He led African slaves to victory in abolishing slavery against Napoleon’s army. (Haiti became the first Black republic in the Americas 1804) |
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| Church Mission Society – British based Anglican church, which desired to establish Christianity in western Africa. |
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| Joseph Roberts – Born in Virginia and immigrated to Liberia. Became the first president of Liberia. (1872) |
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| American Colonization Society |
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| American Colonization Society – Helped in establishing Liberia and transported Africans from America to Liberia. (Americo-Liberian.) |
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| Samuel Crowther – A slave that was liberated and transported to Sierra Leone, one of the first students of Fourah Bay College, convert to Christianity, and a CMS missionary. |
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| Edward Wilmot Blyden – Came from the Virgin Islands and helped establish the first newspaper in Liberia. |
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| Zumbi – A leader of Palmares, Africans that attempted to resist the Portuguese military in Brazil. |
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| Paul Cuffe – He laid the ground work for the American Colonialization Society. An American with African heritage that helped Blacks to immigrate to Sierra Leone. |
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| John Russwurm – Worked for Freedom’s Journal, which was the first newspaper to be operated, owned, and edited by African Americas. Governed Liberia. From Jamacia. |
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| Maroons – Jamaican fugitive slaves and developed self governing communities. |
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| Krios - The blending of repatiots in Sierra Leone. The elite class. |
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| Ruy Lourenco Ravasco – A Portuguese sea captain that led the attack on Zanzibar. |
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| Francisco D'Almeida – A Portuguese sailor that desired to seize control of important African towns and became Governor of Goa (India). |
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| Thomas Peter – Founder of Freetown. A former US slave that led free blacks from Nova Scotia to Sierra Leone, where they founded Freetown. (Important) |
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| Vasco da Gama – A Portuguese explorer, who sailed the Eastern African Coast. (First European to set foot in India by Boat) |
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| Malik Ambar – An Ethiopean that organized African slave soldiers and seized control of Ahmadnagar in Deccan (central India). |
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| Bombay Africans – Africans returning to Freretown (near Mombasa) from Bombay. |
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| Edward Jones – The first principal of the Fourah Bay College. Born in south Carolina and graduated from Amherst college. |
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| Queen Nzinga – Queen of the Angolan region, which led armed resistance against the Portuguese slavers to end slavery. |
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| Ottobah Cugoano – An English slave, who was freed and became active in the Anti-Slavery Movement. Proposed to put British naval squadron patrol western Africa. |
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| William Hawkins – The first Englishman to visit the Guinea Coast. |
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| African Royal Company – A slaving company set up by Britain and greatly increased the financial power of many families in Britain. |
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| Pora – A secret society that is within Sierra Leone and Liberia. For socialization and group identification. |
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| Sande – A woman’s association found in western Africa. For socialization and group identification. |
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| Anti-slavery squadron - Set up by the British to Patrol West African waters and use force to stop trade. |
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| Alvarez Cabral – The man the Portuguese put in charge to head a trade expedition in India. Claimed Brazil on behalf of Portugal. |
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| Voodun – A west African Religion, which spread to many places because of the African Diaspora |
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| Sao Tome – Portuguese made African’s from the mainland and work on sugar plantations. IT BECAME THE LARGEST SINGLE PRODUCER OF SUGAR FOR THE EUROPEAN MARKET. |
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| Zanzibar – The first place to be attacked by the Portuguese by Ruy Lourenco Ravasco. |
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| Fort Jesus – A main center of Portuguese authority in eastern Africa (Mombasa). |
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| Elmina – Forts built by the Portuguese on the African coasts to protect their trading post from rival European shipping. |
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| Fourah Bay College – Oldest College in West Africa, located in Sierra Leone. The First Principal was Edward Jones. |
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| Goa – A small Portuguese colony on the west coast of India, Francisco D'Almeida became the governer. |
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| Goree – An Island city of Senagal, which played a large role in the Triangular Trade. |
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| Kilwa – The most important Swahili Town. The most southern point the sailors could sail. Established local control of oversea trade and extremely wealthy. |
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| Prazos – A privately owned slave-worked plantations |
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| Middle Passage - Refers to the Transportation of Africans to the New World and the middle Portion of the Triangular trade |
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| Amistad mutiny – in 1839, A slave revolt which resulted in freedom of enslaved Africans and their return to the continent. |
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| Aakwa – secret society in Cuba |
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| Triangular trade – A trade used during the African slave trade. Three stages (1) carried goods from Europe to Africa (2) Slaves to America and other Islands (3) Plantation crops to Europe. |
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| Blackmoores – A term used by Elizabeth 1 referring to blacks, saying there are too many in the country. |
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| Asiento – The Spanish Governments permission to distribute Slaves within its colonies. |
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| Boukman – A Jamaican Voodoo Priest, whose death led to the start of Haiti’s Revolution. |
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| Papal Bull – A letter issued by the Pope justifying the continuation of Slave Trade. |
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| Mansfield Decision – (1772) A ruling by the British court, which outlawed slavery in Britain. But still allowing it in its colonies. |
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| Legitimate commerce – Europeans found west Africa a fertile land for what they called this. Outlawed Slavery based on Legitimate. |
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| Palmares – A place for runaway slaves in Brazil. An established an Independent Black Republic |
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| Samori Touri – Used Islam to unite and strengthen his kingdom in the Mandinka Empire |
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| Zenj – The Arabic people referred to the main central area east African Coast. Indian Ocean Trade increased with the spread of Islam. |
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| Azania – What the Greek and Romans called the East African Coast. The most southern point is called Ramptha |
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| Mulattoes – two cultured people, African and European that used their African language to enslave Africans. A result of intermarriages. |
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| Swahilis – The people living on the eastern coast. Translates to literally “the people of the coast.” |
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| Holy Christian War – The justification for the European Christians to take over the Muslim African Land. |
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| Ibn Battuta – A Moroccan explorer, who documented his travels to the land of Zanj. (14th century) |
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| Al-Masudi – A 10th century explorer, who documented his trip to the Land of Zanj. |
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| Tippu Tibb – A Swahili who formed alliances with other merchants and traders. He built an empire with plantations and sold slaves for Ivory in eastern Congo. (Indian Ocean Trade) |
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| Captain Cudjoe – Led Maroon Rebellions against the Europeans in Jamacia. |
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| Entrepots – A trading post where goods can be imported and exported without paying duties. |
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| Periplus – The earliest known reference to the land of Azania, written in Alexandria, the great Egyption trading port. |
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| Chattel – a personal possession, how Americans defined the Africans |
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| “Curiosity Pieces” – Africans used to confirm a new land had been reached by the Portuguese. |
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| Prazos – A privately owned slave-worked plantations |
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| Mane – a branch of mande-speaking peoples that colonized parts of Sierra Leone, making local people captive and selling them along the coast. |
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