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thomas peters

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west african man who was sold as a slave multiple times and eventually established a colony for former slaves in sierra leone (freetown)

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atlantic slave trade

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in which africans were sold typically to the caribbean or the americas working on plantations cultivating cash crops for export

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kingdom of ghana

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controlled and taxed the trans-saharan trade in gold, allowing kings to field large army and influence affairs in west africa

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mali empire

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replaced ghana as preeminent power in west africa but continued to control trans-saharan trade

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songhay

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based in trading city of gao, dominated central niger valley

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sunni ali

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songhay ruler who consolidated the songhay empire and created an imperial navy to patrol the niger river

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timbukti and jenne

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important trading cities brought under songhay control by sunni ali

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kingdom of kanem-bornu

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dominated region around lake chad (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

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the hausa people

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established thriving commercial city-states to the west of lake chad (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

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oyo and asante peoples

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built powerful regional kingdoms in forests south of the grasslands (west africa) after songhay empire crumbled

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diula and mande

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established states on the coasts of west africa after songhay empire crumbled. entered into commercial restions with european marchant-mariners

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vasco da gama

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portuguese mariner who attacked swahili ports and took over mozambique and malindi, sending swahili cities into a decline

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kingdom of kongo

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had political and diplomatic relationships with portuguese merchants. converted to christianity to establish closer relationships with the portuguese

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king nzinga mbemba / king afonso i

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king of kongo, became devout roman catholic and wanted to convert all his subjects to christianity

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mbanza / são salvador

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kongo capital, aka “kongo of the bell” bc lots of churches

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kingdom of ndongo / angola

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portuguese merchants founded a small coastal colony in ndongo, wanted it to support large-scale trading in slaves

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ngola

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title of the king in kingdom of ndongo

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queen nzinga

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queen of ndonga, resisted portuguese forces, wanted subjects to refer to her as king (LADY MACBETH???)

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great zimbabwe

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a regional kingdom built a stone-fortified city known as great zimbabwe and dominated a gold-bearing plain

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cape town

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dutch mariners built a trading post at cape town

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khoikhoi people / hottentots

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dutch mariners encountered these hunters and gatherers at cape town and commandeered khoikhoi labor

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timbuktu

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trading city that had a prominent islamic university and 180 schools that taught the quran

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the fulani

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originally a pastoral people, later led military campaigns to establish islamic states and impose their own brand of islam in west africa. promoted spread of islam to the countryside

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the antonian movement

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led by dona beatriz who said that st anthony of padua possessed her. promoted an african form of christianity

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st antony

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franciscan missionary and popular preacher, popular among portuguese christians

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king pedro iv

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king of kongo, persuaded by christian missionaries to arrest dona beatriz :0

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the islamic slave trade

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muslim merchants sought african slaves for sale. when traditional sources were insufficient to satisfy demand for slaves, the merchants raided villages and forced innocent ppl to servitude

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island of são tomé

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had sugar plantations which called for many slaves

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triangular trade

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european ships often undertook voyages on three legs

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leg 1 of triangular trade

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european ships carried horses and european manufactured goods which they exchanged in sub-saharan africa for slaves

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leg 2 of triangular trade

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european ships took enslaved africans to caribbean and american destinations

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leg 3 of triangular trade

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european merchants sold their human cargoes, filled their vessels’ hulls with american products, and went back to europe

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the “middle passage”

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the trans-atlantic journey aboard filthy and crowded slave ships

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kingdoms of rwanda and burguna, herding societies of the masai and turkana

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largely escaped the slave trade because they resisted it and because their lands were distant from the major slave ports on the west african ports

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asante, dahomey, and oyo peoples

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took advantage of the slave trade to obtain firearms from european merchants and build powerful states in west africa

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kingdom of dahomey

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when the kingdom of dahomey obtained firearms, its armies were able to capture slaves from unarmed neighboring societies and exchange them for more weapons, resulting in its expansion

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maroons

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runaway slaves who gathered in mountainous, forested, or swampy regions and built their own self-governing communities

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the saramaka people in present-day suriname

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maintain an elaborate oral tradition that traces their descent from maroons

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saint-domingue

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french sugar colony where a slave revolt abolished slavery as an institution. slaves declared independence from france, renamed the land as haiti, and established a self-governing republic

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the stono rebellion

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slaves used drums to signal one another to rise up during the stono rebellion in south carolina

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olaudah equiano

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west african who published an autobiography about his experiences as a slave and a free man

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