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graphic organ. 7-1.4
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| colonialism | occupying another country with settlements, exploiting them economically. |
| migration | movement of people from one place to another. |
| plantation | large agricultural estates that produced cash crops. |
| immunity | the body’s ability to resist infection. |
| indentured servant | signed contracts to work for a set number of years to pay off their trip. |
| Atlantic slave trade | the capture and transport of Africans into bondage in the Americas. |
| caboceer | African official appointed by the government to exchange enslaved people with Europeans for goods. |
| Middle Passage | the Atlantic crossing bringing slaves from Africa to the Americas, part of the triangular trade. |
| triangular trade | European ships carried manufactured goods, guns, cloth to trading stations along the coast of West Africa, traded for enslaved Africans, sailed across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas, auctioned off the slaves. Used the profits to buy molasses, sugar, t |
| racism | the unjust treatment of people by others who falsely believe their race is superior. |
| maroon | name given to enslaved Africans in Jamaica who ran away. |
| abolition movement | saw slavery as an evil that must be ended worldwide. |
| griot | a west African storyteller. History was not written down, but passed orally from generation to generation. |
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