Wealthy merchant who started trading at Canary Islands w/ Spanish

Heavy influence on slave trade

    Africa to Caribbean (1562)

        1st voyage 300 slaves and followed rules

        2nd 400 slaves and paid in gold and silver

        3rd  had to steal 500 slaves because Porteguese wouldnt trade for them

shows progression of slave trade

March 4, 1394

Father was King John Paul I

Porteguese man whose goal was to find West African gold trade and Prestor John

Used caravels

Vila du Infante

    city he started and repopulated

Sponsored many voyages

helped find new southern tip (at time) of Africa

Born in France

1st excursions dealt with whaling

1628 was first sail to NA

    30 people to colonize area in Delaware

        colony destroyed by Lenape Indians

1640 went back

    NJ, CT, DE

        Governor William Kiefts sparked war with indians while DeVries wanted peace.  Magnifies relationship of indians and settlers

Born 1595

Algonquin

only 11 or 12 when she met English

Marries John Rolfe and helps in the discovery that tobacco grows very well in Virginia area (becomes a huge cash crop)

Christened Rebecca

travels to London with Rolfe and eventually becomes ill and dies

Slave of African White Descent

owner Lucas taught her Christianity and then he passed away so she was set free

began converting slaves to christianity which frightened people that a revolution could revolt

Met a husband and Germany and in her second attempt to start a school she became successful

She had elite status in Europe

Born in 1757 around Ghana

kidnapped and sold into slavery

    British merchnt buys him and sends him to school

1784 bough by a portrait artist

Published first abolishionist publication in England by an African

travels with other black abolishionist Equiano across England spreading ideas

Born in France

Practiced mercantilism

    economic nationalism for the purpose of creating a wealthy and powerful state

        more wealth coming in then going out

Goal was to scale down public debt, but the King's spending out-pace income.

Eventually his reforms led to war w/ dutch

Born in Santa Cruz

Illegitimate child of spanish sailor with large interest in learning

Started reading at 3 and math at 5

When she wouldn't learn she would cut her hair

joined convent to avoid marriage proposals

    nuns were supposed to write mystical things

        She wrote about theology

Famous for her broken poetry

    Very feminist (possibly 1st female feminist)

    1st femal theologist

    wrote plays for Spanish