Lecture Notes on Slavery and Abolition

Vocabulary flashcards based on lecture notes about the history of slavery, focusing on African and transatlantic contexts, key figures, and the abolition movement.

Indigenous Slavery (African Context)

A system where people of the same race enslave their fellow race members, with slaves often retaining some rights and potential for social integration.

Chattel Slavery (Anglo-American)

The conceptualization of slaves as property or commodities with no rights; prevalent in the Anglo-American visualization of slavery.

Voluntary Subordination

One of the two broad means of acquiring indigenous slaves which involves individuals willingly entering into servitude.

Involuntary Subordination

One of the two broad means of acquiring indigenous slaves which involves capturing or coercing individuals into servitude.

Genealogical Isolates

Slaves in Asia and America were culturally and legally isolated and not integrated into the kinship system of their owners unlike African slaves.

Abolition

The movement and legal processes aimed at ending the Atlantic slave trade and emancipating slaves.

Industrial Revolution

A period of significant technological and economic advancement in Europe, which influenced the shift away from the slave trade towards resource extraction in Africa.

Civilizing Mission

The theory that Europeans had a responsibility to civilize Africans through Christianity and mechanized farming.

Thomas Buxton

Propounded the theory of the Bible and the plough.

Diaspora

The dispersal of Africans away from their homelands due to the slave trade, with many not being resettled or returned to their original communities.

Elmina Castle

One of the trading posts, harbors, and ports along west African coasts.

Trans Atlantic Trade

From Slave trade to the Trans Atlantic Trade.

John Hawkins

John Hawkins’s kidnap of some Africans along west African coast in the 16th century.