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 * 1) Royal African Company- a company chartered by the English in 1672 to oversee trade on Atlantic coast of Africa.
 * 2) Atlantic System-trading links after 1500 that moved goods, wealth, people and cultures around the Atlantic Ocean basin.
 * 3) chartered company-private investors who paid annually to France and England for trade to the West Indies colonies.
 * 4) Dutch West India Company-trading group chartered by the Dutch to have trade in the Americas and Africa.
 * 5) plantocracy-West Indian, colonial men who owned most of the slaves, and land.
 * 6) driver-male slave whose job was to make sure slave gangs did their job.
 * 7) seasoning-difficult period of adjustment to new climates and disease environments especially for the slaves.
 * 8) manumission-a grant of legal freedom to an individual slave.
 * 9) maroon-a runaway slave.
 * 10) capitalism-economic system of large financial institutions.
 * 11) mercantilism-European government policies of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries designed to promote overseas trade with a country and accumulate metals by requiring colonies to trade only with their motherland country.
 * 12) Atlantic Circuit-trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
 * 13) Middle Passage-Part of the Atlantic Circuit that involved the transportation of African slaves.
 * 14) Songhai-people, language, kingdom, and empire in western Sudan in western Africa.
 * 15) Hausa-agricultural and trading people of central Sudan.
 * 16) Bornu-West African Kingdom; powerful in the spread of Islam.