Middle Passage Vocabulary

A voyage that bought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• enslaved

• middle passage

• Atlantic Ocean

• Triangular Trade

Ocean located on the East Coast of the United

• enslaved

• middle passage

• Atlantic Ocean

• Triangular Trade

A three way systems of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent to slaves to America

• enslaved

• middle passage

• Atlantic Ocean

• Triangular Trade

rise in rebellion

• Amistad Rebellion

• Revolt

• captor

• Olaudah Equiano

slave revolt that took place on board of a Spanish ship; resulted in U.S. Supreme Court case in which it was found that the African had been illegally enslaved and should be brought back to Africa

• Amistad Rebellion

• Revolt

• captor

• Olaudah Equiano

a person who captures and holds people or animals

• Amistad Rebellion

• Revolt

• captor

• Olaudah Equiano

(1745-1797) African who sold into slavery and brought his way out-kidnapped as a boy from home he was sold into slavery and sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times and lived in England. Wrote a book.

• Amistad Rebellion

• Revolt

• captor

• Olaudah Equiano

(1745-1797) African who sold into slavery and brought his way out-kidnapped as a boy from home he was sold into slavery and sold into slavery and sold amongst slave traders many times and lived in England. Wrote a book.

• Amistad Rebellion

• Revolt

• captor

• Olaudah Equiano

public sales in which property is sold to the person who offers the most money for it

• mutiny

• Guinea

• epidemic

• Auctions

A widespread outbreak of an infectious disease

• mutiny

• Guinea

• epidemic

• Auctions