slavery def Flashcards

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slave

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a legal thing/posession that could be gifted/sold/traded/put in will and used for labourious tasks they were taken from homes and seperated from their families

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trans-atlantic slave trade

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routeslave traders used when collecting manufactured goods in europe & traded goods for slaves in africa which would then be transported to the americas to be sold

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3
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Burghers

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(farmers) Company officials who were released from their contracts and were allocated land along Leisbeeck river

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4
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“free blacks”

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the few slaves who had been freed

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5
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chattel slavery

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meant one human being was legal belongiing of another human, the slaves were property
*bought/sold
*beqethed/used
*security for loans

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6
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“apprenticeship”

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captured children were taught to speak dutch & pratice christian religion

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emancipated

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slaves who werein capecontinued to work as slaves until 1834 when all slaves were to be set free

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