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Atlantic SlaveTrade
History Midterm '09
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Wall Street | First slave trade center in the colonies |
| Slatee | Slave capturers in West Africa |
| Guinea | Area where Africans were captured |
| Long Island, New York | Site where the Amistad first landed |
| Cinque | Mendekan slave who led the slave revolt |
| Euphemism | Making something sound better than it is |
| Castles | Detention centers where African Slaves were tortured |
| The state were the Africans from the Amistad were imprisoned | Connecticut |
| Language Cinque spoke | Mende |
| Ship that brought the Mandeka from Africa to Cuba | Tecorra |
| Lloyds of London | Largest finance company insuring British slave ships |
| Triangle Trade | The Columbian Exchange; africa, the americas, europe; wool, cotton, rum, refined sugar, slaves |
| Seasoning | Break slaves spitits and backs through beating and hard labor/obedience |
| Prince Henry the navigator | Portuguese/sent ship to west coast of africa/brought back slaves and gold/gave slaves to Pope as a gift /gest west africa |