Course Terms
The movement or scattering of a people away from an established or ancestral homeland
Diaspora
Refers to the three legs of trade that included manufactured goods, crops, cotton, and the middle passage
Triangle Trade
This compromise allowed the enslaved population to be considered in the House of Representatives but did not grant them the benefits of citizenship
Three-Fifths Compromise
Name of the ship found in the water along the Meaher property line
Clotilde
Refers to a system of freeing the enslaved after a 28 years of servitude
Gradual Emancipation
Where size is associated with power
Mapping
Refers to the ways African bodies were placed on ships during the Middle Passage
Tight Packing
Holiday used to commemorate Emancipation
Juneteenth
These authors wrote the earliest narratives of enslavement and demonstrate intersectionality
Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs
A movement started by Free Blacks in the North that was concerned with immediate emancipation rather than gradual
Abolitionist Movement
Where European culture is centered as supreme or superior
Eurocentric
Used to justify the brutality inflicted on Africans under the system of enslavement
Racial Myths / Pseudoscience
Participation was used to demonstrate loyalty to the principle of Emancipation
Military Service
A form of communication or dance expression that uses hand claps, foot stomps, and slaps on the chest
Hambone/ Stepping
A Black institution that offered educational opportunities before service
Black Church / Sunday School
This map was developed in 1375 and depicted Mansa Musa carrying a gold coin
Catalan Atlas
Developed to perpetuate slavery, generate profit, and maintain White supremacy
Race
A drum that allowed messages to be communicated at far distances and is believed to have been used in the South Carolina rebellion
Talking Drum (Djembe)
This modern medicinal practice was developed through experiments on Black women's bodies (Lucy, Betsy, Anarka)
Modern Gynecology
Instrumental in reconfiguring society during the Reconstruction Era
Black Politicians
Term refers to overlapping identities and systems of power
Intersectionality
The year race became a hereditary condition
1662 (Virginia)
This rebellion resulted in slave codes that outlawed drums
Stono Rebellion
This was promised to freedmen to help them establish themselves after Emancipation and was also a punishment for former confederates for beginning the Civil War. This is also the name of Spike Lee's production company.
40 acres and a mule
An exam administered to freedmen to determine whether they could vote. Inspired Black people to establish schools in the South for freedmen
Literacy Tests