AP Euro Topic 1.9 Slave Trade Terms and Names (Amsco Bolded)

Portugal

First European Country to engage in African Slave Trade

Planter Society

Stretching from the Chesapeake Bay (mid-Atlantic) to Brazil and in other parts of the world that produced crops, especially sugar, cotton and tobacco using slave labor on large estates.

Demographics

the characteristics of a population with respect to age, race, and gender.

Demographic Catastrophe

a high mortality rate in a particular portion of the population (such as Native Americans)

increased demand

when a need for a product goes up, leading to attempts to create more of something (such as cotton or sugar)

Triangle Trade

the extensive exchange of slaves, sugar, cotton, and furs between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that transformed economic, political, and social life on both sides of the Atlantic

Middle Passage

the horrific sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.

Forced Migration

Human migration flows in which the people moving are not doing so because of their own choice (such as the slave trade).

Olaudah Equiano

An antislavery activist who wrote a famous account of his enslavement.

Chattel Slavery

A system of bondage in which a slave has the legal status of property and so can be bought and sold like property.