Resistance and Resilience
A common act of resistance by enslaved Africans aboard the ships during the Middle Passage?
Will accept:
hunger strikes or jumping overboard (suicide)
Mutiny (revolt on the ships)
Persisting!
What are the gender differences of the slave population in Latin America vs. the US?
Latin America preferred men for immediate, heavy plantation labor
The US was more mixed due to the emphasis on childbirth, building the slave population domestically
The region (or country) of the Americas that imported the most enslaved people during the Middle Passage.
What is Brazil
(will also accept South America)
This leg of the triangular trade carried millions of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage
What is colonialism?
When a powerful country takes control of another place and influences or governs its people, economy, and/or resources.
This type of cultural resistance, is where African spiritual beliefs, music, and traditions were blended with European ones. It is most common in the African Diaspora in Latin America
What is Syncretism?
What were the differences between slavery in the U.S. vs. Latin America related to life expectancy?
Latin America's harsh sugar and mining operations led to much lower life expectancy (or higher death rates) than the US.
The three most common cultural elements that blend together to form Afro-Latino music.
What are West African rhythms/drums, European vocals/lyrics, and Indigenous instruments?
A primary product coming from the Americas that drove the entire Triangle Trade system, produced by enslaved labor.
Will accept:
sugar, tobacco, and cotton
The primary way that many African artifacts (like the Benin Bronzes) ended up in major European and American museums.
What is looting or being taken by European armies and explorers during raids
What are ways that Africans resisted capture by slave traders?
Will accept:
forts built on a lake (Tofinu stilt-forts)
slave-free safe havens established by leaders
escapes during the marches
Why are populations in Latin America more mixed than populations in the US?
They were more tolerant of Racial mixing in Latin America -
What was a barrier to preserving African culture in Latin America?
Will accept:
policies aimed at "whitening" society (or making society more European)?
Poverty/forced land removal
Not taking African Art seriously, demeaning the genre
The main reason for the horrific death rates during the Middle Passage.
Will accept
Some combination of: disease, malnutrition, overcrowding, and violence/suicide?
The primary reason European nations promoted the view of Africa as "uncivilized" and "primitive."
to create a moral and legal justification for enslaving people
or
taking land/resources (colonization)
What is Portugal?
What is a damaging side-effect of showing stolen artifacts in museums?
will accept
robs african people of their own historical narrative
prevents african people from seeing their country's artifacts
What was the queen's name who created a haven to protect African people from slave traders?
Queen Nzingha
.5 Million
What is the name of the first free town in the Americas?
What is San Basilio de Palenque?
When did the first Slave Ship come to Africa?
What is 1441?
The ethical demand today regarding African artifacts, asking that the objects be returned to their countries of origin (looking for a vocabulary word)
What is Repatriation?