African Beginnings
This city in Mali became a trading hub and cultural crossroads.
Timbuktu
The system of trade involved goods, raw materials, and enslaved people between Africa, Europe, and the Americas makes this shape.
Triangle
This invention led to the growth of slavery in the South.
Cotton Gin
This holiday commemorates the day the news of emancipation finally reached enslaved people in Galveston, Texas.
Juneteenth
This man led an 1831 rebellion in Southampton, Virginia that ended up killing over 50 white people.
Nat Turner
At the beginning of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Europeans captured people primarily from this part Africa.
West Central Africa
The name for the forced sea journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
The Middle Passage
This 1793 law gave owners the right to reclaim runaway slaves, even if they escaped to free states.
Fugitive Slave Act of 1793
This document issued by President Lincoln only freed slaves in rebel states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This woman escaped slavery and punished her autobiography under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
Harriet Jacobs
The trade of these 3 items led to the rise of great West African kingdoms
salt, gold, and people (slaves)
In exchange for enslaved people, Europe offered these items to Africans.
Manufactured goods like guns, textiles, and alcohol
This Latin legal term meant that slave status is inherited from the mother.
Partus sequitur ventrem
This law abolished slavery, except as punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
This man was the first person killed in the Boston Massacre.
Crispus Attucks
This name is shared by a country and a river. It is also home to the second largest rainforest in the world.
Congo
"20 and odd" slaves were brought to Jamestown in this year.
1619
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade was abolished this year.
1808
The Civil War officially ended on this date.
April 9, 1865
Thomas Jefferson's enslaved personal chef who is credited with popularizing macaroni and cheese.
James Hemings
This African tribe located in Benin became wealthy by capturing and selling rivals into slavery.
Dahomey
Most indentured servants in early Virginia came from this country.
England
November 1775: A policy that promised freedom to enslaved people who fought for the British in the Revolutionary War.
Lord Dunmore's Proclamation
The Missouri Compromise banned slavery where? (latitude/longitude)
North of 36 30 line
This man sued for his freedom on the grounds that he had lived in a free state for an extended period of time.
Dred Scott