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Africa

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Factories Trading stations with resident merchants established by the Portuguese and other Europeans.
El Mina Important Portuguese factory on the coast of modern Ghana.
Lançados Afro-Portuguese traders who joined the economies of the African interior with coastal centers.
Nzinga Mvemba Ruler of the Kongo kingdom (1507-1543); converted to Christianity and was renamed Alfonso I; his efforts to integrate Portuguese and African ways foundered because of the slave trade.
Luanda Portuguese settlement founded in the 1520s; became the core for the colony of Angola.
Royal African Company Chartered in Britain in the 1660s to establish a monopoly over the African trade; supplied slaves to British New World colonies.
Indies piece A unit in the complex exchange system of the west African trade; based on the value of an adult male slave.
Triangular trade Complex commercial pattern linking Africa, the Americas, and Europe; slaves from Africa went to the New World; American agricultural products went to Europe; European goods went to Africa.
Asante Akan state centered at Kumasi on the Gold Coast (now Ghana).
Osei Tutu Important ruler who began centralization and expansion of Asante.
Asantehene Title, created by Osei Tutu, of the civil and religious ruler of Asante.
Benin African kingdom in the Bight of Benin; at the height of its power when Europeans arrived; active slave-trading state; famous for its bronze-casting techniques.
Dahomey African state among the Fon or Aja peoples; developed in the 17th century and centered at Abomey; became a major slave-trading state through use of Western firearms.
Luo Nilotic people who migrated from the upper Nile regions to establish dynasties in the lakes region of central Africa.
Uthman Dan Fodio Muslim Fulani leader who launched a great religious movement among the Hausa.
Great Trek Movement inland during the 1830s of Dutch-ancestry settlers in South Africa seeking to escape their British colonial government.
Shaka Ruler among the Nguni peoples of southeast Africa during the early 19th century; developed military tactics that created the Zulu state.
Mfecane Wars among Africans in southern Africa during the early 19th century; caused migrations and alterations in African political organization.
Swazi and Lesotho African states formed by peoples reacting to the stresses of the Mfecane.
Middle Passage Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas; a deadly and traumatic experience.
Obeah African religious practices in the British American islands.
Candomble African religious practices in Brazil among the Yoruba.
Vodun African religious practices among descendants in Haiti.
Palmares Angolan-led, large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil.
Suriname Maroons Descendants of 18th-century runaway slaves who found permanent refuge in the rain forests of Suriname and French Guiana.
William Wilberforce British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave trade in 1807.
Polygyny The practice of having more than one wife at a time.
Oba Term used for king in the kingdom of Benin.
Fulani Pastoral people of western Sudan; adopted purifying Sufi variant of Islam; under Usuman Dan Fodio in 1804, launched revolt against Hausa kingdoms; established state centered on Sokoto.
Afrikaners Another term used for the Boer.
Voortrekkers Boer farmers who migrated further into South Africa during the 1830s and 1840s.
Zulu wars War fought in 1879 between the British and the African Zulu tribes.
Diaspora The dispersion of a group of people after the conquest of their homeland.
Saltwater slaves Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black.
Creole slaves American-born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave women or process of miscegenation.
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