The Atlantic slave trade: Glossary |
| alotted | allocated or given |
| apoplexy | a stroke |
| barbaric | savage, uncivilized |
| consternation | horror, fear, amazement |
| dejected | depressed, in low spirits |
| dysentery | an infection of the intestines resulting in severe diarrohea and loss of blood and mucus, spreads very quickly |
| Elysium | place of happiness |
| emaciated | to become extremely thin as a result of starvation |
| gauger | someone responsible for weights and measures |
| Gold Coast | now called Ghana |
| gratings | network of bars used as a partition |
| iconic | well known and respected |
| powder monkey | a boy whose job it was to take gunpowder to the cannons aboard a ship during a battle |
| pressed | forced into service in the Navy |
| profitability | being able to make money or other gain |
| Quaker | a member of the Society of Friends, a religious group |
| rife | widespread |
| steward | a person in charge of the dining arrangements onboard ship |
| stowed | to fill a space |
| sufficient | enough, as much as is needed |
| transatlantic | crossing the Atlantic ocean |
| windlass | a machine designed to haul or lift things (in this case, probably used to raise/lower the anchor) |
| Windward Coast | coastal area of West Africa that stretches from modern-day Senegal to Cote d’Ivorie |
