AFAM Vocab Quiz

Privateers

a private armed ship commissioned by a government

Conversion

the act of adopting a religious belief

Pidgin

a simple language developed by people who do not speak the same language in order to communicate

Metropoles

the mother country of a colony

Slave narrative 

a recorded or a documented account of the life of an enslaved or formerly enslaved person

Indentured Servant 

a person who signed a contract agreeing to work for a certain period of years in exchange for food, shelter, clothing, passage, etc

Codification

the systematic arranging of laws or rules

Slave court

A separate, restrictive, and unequal colonial judicial system created to preside over legal matters involving enslaved persons. Slave courts were controlled by justices of the peace and/or powerful citizens of the colony

Code Noir

set of laws that regulated enslavement of Black people in Louisana

Panis

an Indigenous person enslaved in North America

Jurisdiction

an area over which a government exercises authority