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Slavery and Abolition Terms
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| Indentured Servant | men and women who signed a contract in which they agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to the New World and, once they arrived, food, clothing, and shelter |
| Slavery | a system in which principles of property law are applied to people, allowing individuals to own, buy and sell other individuals. The person who is seen as owned in this system is unable to withdraw from such an arrangement and works without payment |
| Middle Passage | the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of Africans were forcibly transported to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade |
| Triangle Trade | a term that describes the Atlantic trade routes between three different destinations, or countries, in Colonial Times. The Triangular Trade routes, covered England, Europe, Africa, the Americas and the West Indies |
| Columbian Exchange | the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human populations, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the Old World in the 15th and 16th centuries |
| Abolition | the act of officially ending or stopping something; in Colonial America and Early America, this was applied to those who wished to end the practice of slavery |
| Freeman | a person who was not a slave; a person who had earned freedom from indentured servitude or been freed from slavery |
| Underground Railroad | a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19 century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada |
| Slave Coast | the Western African region that was a major source of Africans that were taken into slavery during the Atlantic slave trade |
| Spirituals | a genre of songs originating in the United States and created by African Americans; the songs described the hardships of slavery, promoted Christian values and traditions, and also served as a code for the Underground Railroad |
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