Chapter 20 Part 3 Flashcards
Angolan-led, large runaway slave state in 17th-century Brazil.
Palmares
Descendants of 18th-century runaway slave who found permanent refuge in the rain
forests of Suriname and French Guiana.
Suriname Maroons
British reformer who led the abolitionist movement that ended the British slave
trade in 1807.
William Wilberforce
the practice of having more than one wife at a time.
Polygyny
Term used for king in the kingdom of Benin.
Oba
Pastoral people of western Sudan; adopted purifying Sufi variant of Islam; under Usuman Dan Fodio in 1804, launched revolt against Hausa kingdoms; established state centered on Sokoto.
Fulani
Another term for the Boer.
Afrikaner
Boer farmers who migrated further into South Africa during the 1830s and 1840s.
Voortrekkers
War fought in 1879 between the British and the African Zulu tribes.
Zulu Wars
The dispersion of a group of people after the conquest of their homeland.
Diaspora
Slaves transported from Africa; almost invariably black.
Saltwater slaves
American-born descendants of saltwater slaves; result of sexual exploitation of slave
women or process of miscegenation
Creole slaves