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| between the early 16th and the mid-18th century, an agreement between the Spanish crown and a private person or another sovereign power by which the latter was granted a monopoly in supplying African slaves for the Spanish colonies in the Americas |
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| forts along the African coast where slaves were held before being shipped to the Americas |
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organized by Dutch merchants; included monopolistic trading privileges in parts of Africa, the West Indies, America, and Australia, as well as the rights to make alliances with the natives, build forts, and plant colonies
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| persons obliged by contract to work for a stated number of years; usual length of service was 4 to 5 years; on completion of the servant's term, the master may have promised to furnish clothing, a year's provision of corn, and the right to 50 acres of land |
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| started as an attack on the Natives to drive them off their lands so indentured servents could have land after servitude was over; turned into a war against the Virginian government when the governor told them to stop fighting with allied Natives; ended when the leader died shortly after overthrowing the government |
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| governor of Virginia during Bacon's Rebellion |
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| slaves worked at specific tasks all day until the oversee told them they could stop |
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| slaves had a list of jobs to complete in a day; if they got all of their jobs done, they could do overwork for the masters for compensation |
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| masters would hire out their slaves that had a special skill (blacksmith, carpenter, ect.) to someone who had need of that skill; almost like the slaves were independent workers |
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| the language of the slaves that was a mix of English and African words |
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| an example of how the slaves tried to retain some of their culture in their new lives; found in Georgia |
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| an example of how the slaves tried to retain some of their culture in their new lives; found in the Carolinas |
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| a simple cross with one line representing the boundary between the living world and that of the dead, and the other representing the path of power from below to above, as well as the vertical path across the boundary; found in early African-American slave cultures |
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| started in 1739 with around 20 slaves arming themselves and grew to 100; slaves killed local white leaders; was defeated and those that weren't killed in the fight were executed afterward |
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