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What is a Slaver?
Ship used to transport Africans to the Americas
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What is the Triangular Trade?
The trade which included three separate leg for the journey.
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What is a Yoke?
A Y-shaped stick placed around the Africans neck to transport them to the coast
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What is the Sugar Revolution?
The period where the planting of sugar cane replaced the planting of tobacco.
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What is a coffle?
The line that West Africans were forced to walk in while journeying to the coast.
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What is the middle passage?
The worst leg of the trans-Atlantic trade journey
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What is an enslaved?
The name given to blacks that were taken against their will.
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What is enslavement?
The act of making someone a slave.
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What is a chattel?
The act of being bought and sold with the land
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What is a barracoon?
The temporary holding area located on the coast, where Africans were held before being transported to the Americas
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