Ancient Africa
This is the area most Africans were captured and taken to the Americas to be slaves.
What is West Africa?
This book which consists of various exerts, images, and stories of when Africans arrived to the new worlds as slaves.
What is the 1619 Project?
First Black Man to be killed in the Boston Massacre, first of five men killed on March 5, 1770
Who is Crispus Attucks?
He was a slave from Virginia and avid reader of the bible. He would later claim to hear voices and believed that God gave him the destiny of freeing the slaves. He led the most violent slave revolt in history killing 55 white people on plantations throughout the area.
Who is Nat Turner?
Born Malcolm Little and he was an avid supporter of Marcus Garvey's viewpoints. An key leader of the Civil Rights Movement, known for his beliefs of "by any means necessary" in obtaining justice and rights for African Americans. (He was the focus of Spike Lee's monumental film from 1992.)
Who was Malcolm X?
The purpose of slavery.
What is profit? or What is Free Labor?
The 1619 Project was created by this author who is also a writer for the New York Times Magazine.
Who is Nicole Hannah-Jones?
An evangelist and reformer, she became a speaker for abolition and women’s suffrage. She was born Isabella Baumfree.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
She and her family were sent to Monticello in Virginia to be the slave of Martha and Thomas Jefferson. After Martha passed she birthed 5 children by Thomas Jefferson. (Only 4 survived)
Who is Sally Hemmings?
A religious leader an activist, he converted many people over to the Nation of Islam including Malcolm X. He was a major religious, political, and economic force in the Black community between the time of period of the 1950s well into the 1970s.
Who was Elijah Muhammad?
The richest to to have ever lived.
Who is Mansa Musa?
Starting in the 1640s Africans were increasingly regarded as _______ or items of personal property to be traded for profit.
What is chattel?
He attempted to buy his freedom and escape from slavery and was unsuccessful at both. He sued for his freedom and his case was eventually rejected by the supreme court.
Who was Dred Scott?
Born a slave, last name was originally Bailey. He became a highly recognized figure for abolitionists and is famously known for his published book that was a Narrative of his life.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A religious leader who heads the Nation of Islam, an organization which combines black nationalism and Islamic teachings. Prior to joining the NOI, Farrakhan was a calypso singer who used the stage name Calypso Gene. He is well known for organizing the Million Man March in 1995.
Who is Louis Farrakhan?
They were west African storytellers that kept events and family history alive.
Who were griots?
This English company was the largest provider of Africans as slaves to Virginia and the Carolinas in the late 17th century.
What is the Royal African Company?
He became a minister and used his church to plan a revolt. Someone alerted the authorities of the plan, he along with many others were publicly hanged.
Who is Denmark Vessey?
Founder of the Black Nationalism Movement and Pan Africanism which supported the relocation of all African Americans back to Africa. (Pan Africa Movement)
Who is Marcus Garvey?
An abolitionist, journalist, physician, military officer and writer who was arguably the first proponent of black nationalism. (AKA the Father of Black nationalism) He is credited with the Pan-African slogan of "Africa for Africans." Co-editor of the North Star.
Who was Martin Delany?
In addition to the Americas, these two areas were greatly invested countries were greatly invested in the North Atlantic/Transatlantic slave trade.
What is Spain and Portugal?
The forced migration of millions of Africans has been called by African American activists and historians as _________ a Kiswhahili word meaning great disaster.
(________ AKA the Black Holocaust)
What is Maafa?
Was on the Amistead slave ship, responsible for leading the ship being seized and killing all but two of the crew who were saved to navigate the course back to Africa. Then Attorney and future President John Quincy Adams won the case for slaves involved.
Who is Joseph Cinque?
Learned to read and write as a slave in Haiti. At the age of 50 a violent revolt erupted over rights, land, and labor. He became the leader and general of this revolt. Later he would be known as the leader of the Haitian Independence Movement.
Who is Dominique Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Both were Black Nationalist and Reparations Activist they both traveled around educating communities about civil rights and reparations. _________ traveled between 1897 to 1899 and _________ was so inspired by these actions she began spreading the message of civil rights and reparations in the 1920s.
Who were Callie House and Audley Moore (Queen Mother)?