Africans in the Americas
This term refers to the Africans that were explorers in the "New World" and aided Spanish/Portuguese expeditions
What are ladinos?
Self-emancipated people that created their own autonomous communities -- often in hidden/remote environments -- were known as this
What are maroons?
This invention revolutionized cotton production in the South and it made it more lucrative for enslavers to traffick enslaved labor to their plantations
What is the cotton gin?
African Americans who advocated for leaving the United States to create a "colony" in Africa or Latin America were known as this
What are emigrationists?
Juneteenth is now a federal holiday that is celebrated on this date
This man was the first known African to step foot on what is now the United States during a Spanish expedition to Florida
Who is Juan Garrido?
Languages that blend linguistic patterns from multiple influences are known as this
What is creole?
Although the international slave trade was banned in this year, America's enslaved population grew significantly due to the domestic slave trade
What is 1808?
David Walker and Henry Highland Garnet advocated for the end of slavery with this strategy
What is radical abolition?
Black communities in the North suffered anti-Black violence due to resentment about the draft, especially from these two groups
What are working class men and Irish immigrants?
Approximately __% of all Africans trafficked into slavery ended up in the United States
What is 5%?
This Haitian leader is credited as the "George Washington of Haiti" and is a symbol of Black pride
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Some African Americans fleeing slavery found refuge with this tribe in Florida
What is the Seminole tribe?
What is moral suasion?
This 1857 Supreme Court case decided that African Americans were not considered citizens and that Congress could not legislate on slavery's status in non-state territories
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Before they were shipped across the Atlantic, captured Africans would be held in these detainment facilities
What are barracoons?
This instrument -- found frequently in country and bluegrass music -- is largely based off of similar West African instruments made from gourds
What is a banjo?
These two articles in the Constitution directly included slavery into the fabric of American government without even using the word "slavery"
What is Articles I and IV?
Two of your required sources from this unit are slave narratives by these two women
Who are Harriet Jacobs and Mary Prince?
The Emancipation Proclamation was issue in this year to help destabilize the South, address labor shortages for the Union army, and explicitly make the Civil War about slavery
What is 1863?
Most enslaved Africans came from these two modern countries in Africa
What is Senegambia and Angola?
This British leader's proclamation that promised freedom for all enslaved people that joined the British army soured the loyalist cause in the South
Who is Lord Dunmore?
Maroon communities that emerged in Latin America were known by this name (Spanish or Portuguese acceptable)
What are palenques or quilombos?
Sojourner Truth sold these to raise money for the abolitionist cause
What are carte-de-visites?
Although the majority of the Black population in Brazil was free at the time of abolition, Brazil was still the last country to ban slavery in this year
What is 1888?