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Diaspora
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mass dispersion of a people from their homeland
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carracks/caravels
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a type of ship developed by the Portuguese designed for long exploratory voyages. These small ships used two or three triangular anf square masts
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Guanches
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the native inhabitants of the Canary Islands which were claimed by Spain and later conquered in the 1490s
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Taino Indians
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the native inhabitants of the Spanish Colony of Hispaniola (Haiti/Dominican Republic)
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encomienda
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a system developed by the Spanish government that allowed Spaniards to collect tribute in the form of labor, gold or goods from the native people they controlled
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ladinos
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Latinized blacks whacked from Spain and Portugal
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bozales
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a term used by the Spanish for recently imported Africans
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Elmina Castle
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a fortress in present day Ghana, built by the Portuguese as a trading post in 1482 and used as a major slave trading center by the Dutch from 1637 to 1818
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asiento
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a contract or trade agreement created by the Spanish crown
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triangle trade
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the trade system that propelled the transatlantic slave trade in which European merchants exchanged manufactured goods for enslaved Africans, whom they shipped to the Americas to exchange for the New World commodities which they shipped back to European markets
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coffles
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a group of animals, prisoners, or slaves chained together in a line.
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barracoons
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barracks or sheds where some slaves were confined before boarding a slave ship
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cash crop
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readily salable crops grown for commercial sale and export, rather than locale sale
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bilboes
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Iron hand and leg cuffs used to shackle slaves
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tight packing
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crowding the human cargo carried on slave ships to maximize profits. By contrast "loose packing" involved carrying fewer slaves in better conditions to keep mortality rates low
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