| A | B |
|---|
| factories | Portuguese established forts and and trading posts with resident merchants |
| El Mina | most important factory in Africa during this time period. Located in the heart of the gold producing region |
| Royal African Company | English factory created for the purpose of having there own source of slaves for the growing colonies they possessed |
| triangular trade | slaves to America, sugar tobacco and other goods to Europe, and European goods sent to Africas coasts |
| Asante | rose to prominence in the period of the slave trade |
| middle passage | the terrible slave voyage to the Americas, where many slaves became very ill and died |
| saltwater slaves | all African slaves |
| creole slaves | one parent white and other black |
| palmares | an enormous runaway slave kingdom with a population of about 8-10 thousand |
| John Wesley and William Wiberforce | led an abolishionist movement against merchants and the West Indies interests |
