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9 Cards in this Set
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Mande and Soninke |
- Merchants from Mali and Songhay who traded with the Portuguese
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Nzinga Mvemba |
-Ruler of Kongo (1507-1543) converted the entire kingdom to Christianity and tried to limit the slave trade due to the enslavement of many of his subjects
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Royal African Company |
- A slave trade company created by the English in 1660 who were eager to compete with the Portuguese and have their own source of slaves for their growing colonies in Barbados, Jamaica, and Virginia
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Ahmad Baba |
-(1556-1627) Legal scholar against the enslavement of Muslims in the Sudanic States
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Asante |
- members of the Akan people
-lived in Kumasi, a region of gold and kola nut production |
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: King Agaja |
-(1708-1740) King of Dahomey, expanded kingdom seizing in 1742 the port of Whydah which attracted many European traders
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Usuman Dan Fodio |
- Muslim Fulani Scholar, started a revolution in 1804 aganist the Hausa Kings who, he felt, were not following the teachings of Muhammed
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: Shaka |
-became leader of Nguni, a brilliant military tactician who formed the loose forces into regiments organized by lineage and age
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Africa in the Age of the Atlantic Slave Trade
Key People: John Wesley and William Wilberforce |
-Christian Abolitionists who started a movement that abolished the British Slave Trade in 1807
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