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18 Cards in this Set
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Griot
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These individuals were the oral storytellers and by virtue the societies historians that told the creation myths and create the continuity of history. This position was generational and was considered an occupation or craft.
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African Middlemen
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Traders that went into the interior of Africa where the whitemen could not journey to bring in slaves and other goods.
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Trans-Saharan Trade
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a trade route across Africa used to transport slaves to the west coast. Consisted of caravans and camels that was used to transport ivory, slaves and gold to cross the entire Sahara desert. Established land trade.
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Lineage slavery
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Slaves are brought into a lineage and overtime become part of the lineage. Reference to how African society is organized. Significant difference between African and American society is that the slave can become part of the community and is still viewed as human.
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Legitimate commerce
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What can be used other than slavery for economic gain in West African trade...palm oil...lubricant for the factories
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Matrilineal descent
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Order by which inheritance is attached to the mother's family versus the father's. Alternative societal structure in African.
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Pawn
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An individual that is traded for financial gain, like on would pawn any other item. It is the way in which one could become a slave in African society
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King Ja Ja of Opobo
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A slave who rose their lineage slavery to become part of the lineage and eventually declared himself free and became a king of a neighboring society. He became so successful that he was taken captive by the British for traitorous activity and was deported to the West Indies
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Kilwa
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citystate that allowed trade into the Indian ocean
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American Colonization Society
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The American Colonization Society was an organization that helped in founding Liberia in 1821 and transported free blacks there from the United States
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Niger Delta House System
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the emergence of the trading city-states of the Niger delta represented a social revolution as well as a political innovation. The kinship system gave way to the "House" system, by which both freemen and large numbers of slaves needed to operate trading canoes and strategic and trading settlements were bound together by common economic interests into large corporations headed by the leading merchants.
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Technological gap
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Gap that has had tremendous impact in the ways of shaping the slave trade, imperialism, fire arms and healthcare.
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Elmina
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It is a place where the Portuguese have their first contact with West Africa. Gold coast location. Castle there for the search for gold. First contact was not for slaves but other commodities
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Swahili
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Islam meets N.Africa
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Quinine
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first effective treatment for malaria, allowed the white man to venture into the heart of Africa and the Congo
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Ritual sacrafice of humans
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Social significance: displayed the wealth and power of the chief to have his servants go to the grave with him.
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William Wilberforce
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British member of parliment who headed the movement to end the slavetrade. He was known for his socially progressive legislation
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Lott Carey
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Lott Carey was a co-founder and the first black governor of Liberia, the colony for freed American slaves that was established by the American Colonization Society in 1822
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