African Slavery : TransAtlantic Genesis

Question 1

This lexical term refers to the expanse of water with multitudinous and scattered islands. The term also implies things bearing similitude or similarity. Etymologically speaking , its Italian word , ‘ arcipelago ‘ means Chief Sea.

Answer 1

Archipelago

Question 2

This wine is a fortified amber colored base as emanated from Madeira Island. Its etymology is Portuguese oriented of the same spelling.

Answer 2

Madeira

Question 3

A small finch of the genus Serinus Canarius family. It originated from Canary Island and is characteristically greenish to yellow in hue. This lexical term is germane to a caged bird that sings.

Answer 3

Canary

Question 4

Human trafficking and chattelism existed prior to the Bubonic plague of this Continent. It experimented with slavery of the Muslims and the Slavics in _Tyre , Lebonon in 1170 A.D. The momentum in the resurgence of slavery surfaced in the 15th Century C.E. . This racial stock launched the irruption , invasion , and colonization of Canary Island and mobilized the enslavement of indigenes of color. Oenology and sugar plantation thrived as a profitable industries or markets. Identify this group of slavers.

Answer 4

The European

Question 5

In the wake of Canary Island conversion into a Naval fortification around Mid 15th Century , this European interstices as Mercantile traders staged innumerable raiding expedition of the West African hamlets beginning in 1442. This culminated in the coercive transit of the African captives to Christian (?) Mediterranean. Who were these callous brigands called traders?

Answer 5

Portuguese traders

Question 6

Which European group became the 1st slavers of the African who were transplanted by force to Hispaniola in 1501 and Cuba ?

Answer 6

Spanish Conquistadors of Spain

Question 7

The time capsule of the 15th to 17th Centuries marked as the avaricious era of European expansion . The repercussion ushered in the augmentation of Colonial power in the New World , the Razzaphobic and Xenophobic demand for African slaves and the entrenchment of THIS human trafficking mercantilism.

Answer 7

TransAtlantic Slave Trade

Question 8

This Archipelagic region is geographically situated off the littoral of Northwestern Africa . Its Coast is within the nautical radius of Morocco. Historically , it functioned as the territorial possession , oenological turf , and sugar plantation as well as a Naval fortification of Spain .

Answer 8

Canary Island.

Question 9

This Caribbean Island in the Greater Antilles geographically embodies 2 sovereign Nations : Haiti and Dominican Republic . It was once the Spanish Conquistadors’ 1st experimental ground for Racial Slavery beginning with Haiti in 1501. The Spanish were the 1st slavers of the Africans in this New World called this.

Answer 9

Hispaniola

Question 10

The Genesis of the European controlled slave market resurfaced this time with permanency around the 15th Century C.E. The Iberian Portuguese under the auspice of Prince Henry the navigator , commenced and orchestrated the navigational exploration of the African West Coast in their quest for the viable trade route to the East. Their initial embarkation was in Senegal in 1442. By 1444 , this band of rogue European traders transplanted the African captives to Iberian Peninsula and then to THIS archipelago’s sugar plantation. Geographically . the Archipelagos was within the nautical radius of Morocco. The Portuguese’ action was in direct response to the Colonists’ callous demand for African cheap labor thus emboldening the slave trade. Identify this West African island.

Answer 10

Madeira Island

Question 11

The Kingdom of Castille granted cabotage and vested power to the Spanish Conquistadors to irrupt , invade , & colonize the colored indigenes of Canary Island just off the coast of Africa. The Spanish enslaved the captives on this island and in the neighboring Christian __?__.

Answer 11

Mediterranean

Question 12

By the 16th Century C.E. , the Portuguese settlers opined Canary Island as an ideal territory for sugar cultivation. The culminative events involved the conversion of. Canary Island into an Oenological and sugar plantation. The Oenologic culture implicates wine making venture. Given the nature of intensive labor economy , the Portuguese settlers used lame excuses to eschew task commitment: heat intolerance and lack of infrastructure . What became the Portuguese Algorithmic solution to Labor shortage ?

Answer 12

Wholesale Enslavement of African

Question 13

Around 1482 A.D. , the architectural construction of the THIS Slave Castle was commissioned by the Portuguese . The utility of coercive African Labor facilitated the building of this barracoon. It was an embarkation and disembarkation depot where the Portuguese transplanted the Africans to both West African islands of the New World : Canary and Madeira. This is an UNESCO designated historic landmark.

Answer 13

Elmina Castle

Question 14

Canary Island served as a leverage for ambushing and raiding expeditions . The captured Africans were auctioned off and sold to the Mediterranean. These activities were made possible after its conversion action. What had become of the Canary Island that was under the auspice of the Portuguese merchants? What transformation took place?

Answer 14

Naval Fortification Base

Question 15

Unlike the Spanish Conquistadors , the Portuguese marshalled the enslavement of the African at limited geographic zones such as Canary and Madeira islands AND __?__.

Answer 15

Brazil

Question 16

The Portuguese’s raiding ships of the late 15th and early 16th Centuries encountered the powerful group whose own trained Sailors slaughtered the trespassing European crewmen , the raiders and Caboceers( slave catchers). This group had sophisticated Argosy for canvassing and patrolling their African countries along the West African Coast and the river system. Unfortunately , the African Embrenche ( the titulary for King) discontinued this Sailors’ activities AFTER being beguiled by the Portuguese’ insistence to partake in the slave mercantilism for acquisitive wealth .

Answer 16

The African Naval forces

Question 17

For a duration of 60 years since 1442 , the Portuguese enslavement of the African spanned the geographic zones of the Iberian Peninsula to the West Africa’s Archipelagos: Canary & Madeira Islands. They were NOT however the 1st European to transport African to the New World of Hispaniola and Cuba in 1501. Which European became the 1st in the latter ventures?

Answer 17

The Spanish of Spain

Question 18

Which European traders were responsible for the conveyance and importation of 19 Africans to Jamestown , Virginia in 1619?

Answer 18

The Dutch

Question 19

The Portuguese executed the intense penetration of South America especially the country whose neoteric capital is Brasilia. There it decisively installed both the husbandry and mining ventures. This arose in direct response to the colonists’ pressure for Racial Slavery in this South American country who later abolished slavery in 1888.

Answer 19

Brazil

Question 20

The European Nations partook in the burgeoning expansion of the TransAtlantic slave trade in this sequential order: Portugal , Spain , France , Great Britain and ___?___. All competitively vied for monopolistic possession of the African Slave trade. Fill in the blank.

Answer 20

The Netherland

Question 21

Great Britain held its first experimental slave plantation economy in this Caribbean Island of the Lesser Antilles.

Answer 21

Barbados

Question 22

Great Britain Naval caliber fueled the expansion of its colonies in the Lesser Antilles . It orchestrated a powerful Naval monopoly over the Mid Atlantic territory. This reinforced their stake in the mercantile trade base and the navigational supremacy. What happen to other competitive European that set the course of retrogression ?

Answer 22

Financial ineffectiveness in the slave trade

Question 23

Philip A. Curtin’s archival data entitled , The Atlantic Slave Trade : A Census , highlighted and illumined a Cartographic analysis of the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The Geographic origin of the enslaved Africans is very intriguing. The highest concentration of West Central Africans were transplanted to Brazil and __?__ ( my ancestral homeland ) . According to Curtin’s statistical assessment , roughly over 9 million Africans each were exported to those geographic zones. While the West Central African constituted the demographic majority, only a marginalized #s emanated from East Africa . Fill in the Blank.

Answer 23

Barbados

Question 24

Over 4 million Swahili Coast African were subjected to exportation to this geographic region. They were an integral part of the TranSaharan Slave Trade that served as an archetype for the European slavers. This provenance is derived from Philip Curtin’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Census. ( Patterson’s Slavery and Social Death ).

Answer 24

Arabia

Question 25

Four North African sovereign nations received the importation of over 2 million West African as slaves. The affected regions encompassed Morocco, Tunisia , Libya , and __?__. The neoteric Capital of the latter is Cairo.

Answer 25

Egypt

Question 26

The English Crown granted this Charter called __?__ to have monopolistic authority over the slave routes to Africa until 1712.

Answer 26

Royal African Company