Colonial Slavery Terms

The system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that transported enslaved Africans to the American colonies

• Middle Passage

• Slave Codes

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Indentured Servants

• The horrific sea journey endured by enslaved Africans as they were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to the Americas.

• Middle Passage

• Indentured Servants

• Chattel Slavery

• Slave Codes

• Individuals who worked for a set number of years in exchange for passage to the colonies. Unlike slaves, they were freed after their contract ended.

• Chattel Slavery

• Plantation System

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

• Indentured Servants

• A system where enslaved people were treated as property, with no personal rights, and their status as slaves was passed on to their children.

• Feudalism
• Indentured servitude
• Serfdom
• Chattel slavery

• Laws passed by colonial governments to control the actions and behaviors of enslaved people, often limiting their freedoms and rights.

• Civil Rights Regulations
• Emancipation Laws
• Slave Codes
• Freedom Acts

• Large farms in the Southern Colonies that relied on slave labor to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo.

• Plantations System

• Farms
• Crops
• Estates

• A 1739 slave uprising in South Carolina that became one of the largest and most significant revolts by enslaved Africans in colonial America.

• Nat Turner Rebellion
• Bacon's Rebellion
• Gabriel's Rebellion
• Stono Rebellion

• Agricultural products like tobacco, rice, and indigo grown on plantations, which relied heavily on slave labor.

• Tobacco farming in small family-owned farms.
• Plantation agriculture using mechanized farming.
• Cash Crops.

• Rice cultivation in urban gardens.

• The unique culture that developed among African slaves in coastal South Carolina, blending African traditions with colonial life.

• Creole
• Spanglish
• Gullah Culture

• Patois

• A platform used for selling enslaved people to the highest bidder, further dehumanizing them as property.

• Plantation market
• Human trafficking site
• Labor auction house
• Slave Auction block