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abolitionism
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started 1700s. 1st country to abolish slavery-denmark. Denmark was small but had 3 slaving compounds on the w. coest of africa.
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maroon
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people that escaped from slavery
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palmares, brazil
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the biggest concentration of x-slaves. you found slavery here! that's what they knew.
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Luso-Africans
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slaves taken out of Africa and taken to Brazil. freed themselves and went back to africa and became important in the slave trade
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Quakers
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important in reform movments. real name: society of Fridns. looked upon as astrange by rest of Christians. went to a meeting hous. no leaders. everyone equal. women and men could all speak. the idea of equality. susan b anthony, etc came from quakers
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John Woolman
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"if you owned slaves your soul was in danger." spark of abolitionism. from eng
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William Wilburforce
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a politian. "slavery should be eradicated."
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Granville Sharp
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self educated. a gov clerk. maybe 8th grade ed. did a self study of law. prophet of abolitionism. tried to get rid fo it in many areas. he tried to find a legal venue to get rid of slavery. law books and lawyers. tried to find loopholes. to be against slaver
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Lord Chief Justice Sir James Mansfield
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headed case in appeal for a slave. there are no laws of slavery; therefore there is no slavery. this freed 15, 000 slaves in England.
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Nova Scotia
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ex slaves were taken there, but it was cold
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Province of Freedom
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the british had already est. themselves in africa. eirra leone was the province of freedom. moved slaves back to africa. prob with this: do they really know how to live there? man slaves decided to go back. sierra leone became the first british colony in africa. didnt work sas well as they thought. ex slaves were arleady badly influenced by ideas of slavery. they thought they were superior to native africans and vice versa. malreia and yellow feverwiped out a lot of ex slaves. they didnt know whow to farm in africa caus it was tropical
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Freetown
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1st community est in sierra leone. sorta successful. relatively decent harbor.
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legally ended slavery, but ppl still did it
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1800s
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Krio society
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comunity of ex slaves in sierra leione. had many languges and were from dif places in africa. ceated creole language. creole is a mix of eng and african languages
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creole society needed an economy
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gum arabic, palm oil, latex
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samuel Ajayi Crowther
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British intercepted his ship and taken to sierra leone. he was influenced by missionaries. he converted to church of eng. became priest of anglican church. went back to homeland. trans. parts of bible into Yoruba and became missionary there (Nigeria) pursuaded many to convert. became bishop of Nigeria
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Creole society
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became the elite. they controlled for long time. indigenous africans treated as 2nd class ppl. remained till late 20th cent.
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American Colonozation Society
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this society wanted to send slavves back to africa. thought british would accept the slaves in sierra leone, but didnt. took em to Monrovia, Liberia.
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Paul Cuffee
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maybbe slaves should go back to Africa
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Slave ship caught
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sailers rewardd
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Liberia
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an american creation. return slaves to africa. pres monroe supported reluctantly. captial: monrovia. 1st group of people from maryland and mississippi mainly. how much independencee did they really have? us gov didnt recognize ind because of the south. finally, ind in 1862
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Americo Liberians
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ex slaves who went to Liberia. elite in Liberia
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civil war for 20 yrs between liberians and americo liberians
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happened cause americo liberians thought they were superior
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s. africa
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meditteranean climate. temperate. not much of winter. sun rises and swets boom.
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pasturlaist
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what the africans were. hearded cattle, didnt kill em. they didnt farm
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dutch (from netherlands)
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settled at Cape Town.
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Namib Desert
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no vegetation. s. africa
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Dutch East India Company
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as a location where vessels could restock water and provisions in s. africa
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Khosian
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languages spolen in s. africa with clicks
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Khoikhoi and San
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Khoikhoi and san may have spoken same lang, but Khoikhoi owned cattle. San were foragers for veg and they alsto hunted. if u managed to get cattle, become khoikhoi
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Dutch Reformed Church
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called themselves bastards, coloured, griqua. white pop. members .
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Malays
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from e. indies were also brought there by the dutch. they had to work to pay off trip to Africa
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trekboers
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as dutch pop moved to north of cape town, they were called this. theyd move from 1st place to 2nd back to 1st. they move along w/ the rains.
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loager
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trekboers coveredwagons put into a circle into a community as a defense
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Napoleon
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never ended up in s. africa, but his wars went across europe for 23 yrs. french took over netherlands, belg, and lux. stand mad eit french. then brits started attacking dutch places, including s. africa. and now brits move there
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Xhosa
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basic ethnic group in S. Africa
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ethnic groups in s. africa
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relatively fluid. no black and white. ppl moved from one to the other, but divisions between ethnic groups were exensuated by the white groups. they made them NOT look like they fit together (not true) -apartheid. iin some ways zulu related to ndebele, even though apartheid says no
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Shaka Zulu
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started a strong political entity that stood up to britsa nd tothers. he assumes powere when leader of zulukilled. power vaccuum. how to maintain power? cattle. tradition of age grade, went against it. created frustration and some were happy to get rid of him. tried to set up relations w/ british because he wanted firearms but he didnt get them. when he was young, one of his opponents relative. aunt. hyena.
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Mfecane and Ndebele
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Shaka Zulu made these 2 groups move to northern areas. must move and populate zimbabwe
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Moshoeshoe
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wasnt is real name. its an onomotapoeia for razoring ppl out of area. successful because chose right local. he created lesotho and used it as a defense. was able to make british recognize him as "reasonable" individual. he permitte christian missionary to come in.
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The Great Trek
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ppl invlived are called voorkrekkers. movement of lrg number of Afrikaaners to Orange and Vaal Rivers.
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Orange Free State.
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created by voorkrekkers at the 2 rivers
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Transvaal
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area across riivers that voorkrekkers inhabited
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slavery in s. africa and the great trek
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slavery supposed to end says brits, but afrikaaners upset. moved from cape colony to the free state. some just adjusted
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Piet Retief
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one of earliest leaders of the great trek. fought w/ indiginous foke. he was killed by indiginious in one of their celebrations of executing afrikaaners
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Andries Pretorius
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great organization skills.leader of great trek. took over after piet retief died
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Battle of blood River
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Afrikaaners won. more africans, but afrikaaners had canons. MANY Africans died
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War of the Axe
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Xhosa werent happy that great trek ppl wer moving in and there were portests. called this cause a criminal being carried by official stole and axe. BIG deal. escaped to xhosa so afrikaaners attaccked xhosa. more like a battel than war. result: more land taken over
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Nongqawuse
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a Xhosa. destroy cattle and offer to gods and gods will replace them in abundance
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Boer Republics
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Brits recognized them but uner the brits watchful ey. the afrikaaner's areas.
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diamonds and gold
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discovered by boers. greed. ppl were farmers, but u need trained ppl and special equipment so brits moved in to do the work.
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Uitlanders
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brits that moved in to work with gold and diamonds. not boers. speak eng. mostly men. dont have same cult values as boers. def didnt watn to be dutch remformed church. endued up here: prostitutes, taverns. w/o women, didnt know how to act, broke law
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Asante
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interior of modern day ghana
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asantaheme
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king of the asante.
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