spirtual, a type of religious song that developed among enslaved Africans and that expressed deep emotion, auction, a public sale in which property is sold to the highest bidder, enslaver, someone who captures or holds another person for the purposes of slavery, such as a plantation owner, overseer, a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people who could punish them for disobeying him, triangular trade, the exchange of people who were enslaved and goods between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa, using shipping routes across the Atlantic Ocean, Middle Passage, the voyage of ships carrying enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to the West Indies and the American continents.

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