# Vocabulary Hub: [[Topics/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History/Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History|Slavery, Colonialism and Teaching History]] | Term | Meaning | |---|---| | Chattel slavery | People held as movable property, for life, with status passed to their children. The US form was also defined by race. | | Partus sequitur ventrem | "The offspring follows the womb": Virginia's 1662 rule that a child's status follows the mother's ◻. | | Middle Passage | The Atlantic crossing; about 1.8M of 12.5M embarked died on it. | | African intermediaries | The rulers, merchants and brokers (Dahomey, Asante, Oyo, Aro and others) who sold captives to European ships ◻. | | Trans-Saharan / Red Sea / Indian Ocean trades | The older routes taking Africans north and east to North Africa, Arabia, Persia and India, 7th–20th centuries. Often called "the Arab slave trade", though traders were not all Arab. | | Abeed (ʿabīd) | Arabic for "slaves", used as a slur for Black people; cited by @AlBuffalo2nite ([Oct 24](https://x.com/AlBuffalo2nite/status/2113965863195812019)). | | Williams thesis | Eric Williams (*Capitalism and Slavery*, 1944): slave-trade profits helped finance British industrialization, and abolition came when slavery stopped paying. Disputed ◻. | | Realignment | The shift of party coalitions, especially white Southerners from Democrat to Republican and Black voters from Republican to Democrat, between the New Deal and the 1980s ◻. | | Reparations | Compensation for slavery or its after-effects; the subtext of the thread Marshall joined. | | #AStoneGroove / #SilentMajoritySpeaks | @AlBuffalo2nite's signature hashtags. |