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Who are saltwater slaves
Slaves transported from africa; almost invariably black
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What is 35 percent
the percentage of slaves that took up the population in Brazil
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What is corn
crop that the slaves on plantations help grow: also known as maize
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What is The Middle Passage
Slave voyage from Africa to the Americas. Generally a traumatic expirience for slaves but it didnt strip them from their culture
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What is the 16th throught 1th century
the time periods in which the middle passage took place
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What is the triangular trade
commerce linking Africa, the New world colonies, and Europe; slaves carried to America for sugar and tobacco transported to Europe
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What is Obeah
African religious ideas and practices in the English and French Caribbean islandss
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Who are mulattos
The nickname for slaves who where mixed with Black and white by sexual exploatations of slave women and other forms of miscegenation *Hint* it is not creole slaves
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What is Suriname
formally a dutch plantation colony on the coast of South America; location of runaway slave kingdom in 18th century
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Who are Fulani
pastoral people of western Sudan
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What is Lesotho
Southern African state that survived Mfecane
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Who are slaves
In American Slaves societies these people were at the bottom of the hierarchy
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Who is Osei Tutu
Member of Oyoko clan of Akan peoples in gold coast reigon of Africa
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Who is William Wilberforce
British statesmen and reformer: leader of the abolitionist movement on the English parliament
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Who are free whites
In American slaves societies these people were at the top of the hierarchy
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