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The name of the system of transatlantic trade in the 16th century between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
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The Name of 2 Bill of Rights Amendments
1st: Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Press, Freedom of Religion
2nd: Right to Bear Arms
4th: Right Against Search and Seizure
5th Right to remain silence against self incrimination
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This law enabled Slave Catchers and Paddy Rollers to pursue enslaved property that escaped to the Northwest Territory. It also legally sanctioned the kidnapping of free Black people.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793?
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He was an American whaler, sailor, and stevedore of African and Native American descent that was killed by the British in what became known as the "Boston Massacre." He is regarded as the first American killed in the Revolutionary War.
Who is Crispus Attucks?
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This enslaved woman won her freedom in California through the court system and later became a wealthy real estate owner and philanthropist in Los Angeles.
Who is Biddie Mason?
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This 1855 case convicted a teenage enslaved girl for killing her owner while resisting sexual assault; the court refused to recognize her right to self-defense.
Celia vs. The State of Missouri
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Name at least two African Kingdoms that existed before the European Slave Trade.
1. Ghana
2. Mali
3. Nubia
4. Benin
5. Ethiopia
6. Moors
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An enslaved woman accused, convicted, and executed for burning down much of Montreal, Canada after her owner refused to free her in 1734.
Who is Marie-Joseph Angélique?
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This 1820 political agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state, and banned slavery north of the 36°30' line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
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This 1839 case involved kidnapped Africans who rebelled aboard a ship and later won their freedom in the U.S. Supreme Court.
What is the Amistad Case?
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He was called the Black George Washington and helped Haiti gain independence from France.
Who is Toussaint Louveture?
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This legal doctrine declared that a child inherited the enslaved status of the mother, ensuring slavery reproduced itself through generations
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem?
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Every slave castle in Africa had one of these. It was the last place every enslaved person walked before forcibly boarding European ships.
What is the door of No Return?
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This 1781 legal hearing involved an insurance claim after more than 130 enslaved Africans were thrown overboard a British ship to collect insurance money.
What is The Zong Case?
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Him and his wife eventually bought their way out of bondage. They acquired their own land. During the 1640s they lived at their own place, raising livestock. By the 1650s, their estate had grown to 250 acres. For any ex-servant -- black or white -- to own his own land was uncommon, despite the promise made by the Virginia Company to give a tract of land to each servant at the end of service. For an ex-servant to own 250 acres was rarer still. Eventually, all of thier land was seized because the British Empire considered them "aliens" under the new Virginia slave laws.
Who is Anthony and Martha Johnson?
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This enslaved preacher led a violent 1831 slave revolt in Virginia, resulting in the deaths of white slaveholders and widespread retaliation against Black communities.
Who is Nat Turner?
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Unlike countless enslaved women, she was able to negotiate with her enslaver and rapist Thomas Jefferson. In Paris, where she was free, the 16-year-old agreed to return to enslavement at Monticello in exchange for “extraordinary privileges” for herself and freedom for her unborn children. Over the next 32 years Hemings raised four children—Beverly, Harriet, Madison, and Eston—and prepared them for their eventual emancipation. She did not negotiate for, or ever receive, legal freedom in Virginia
Who is Sallie Hemmings?
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This formerly enslaved man and church leader organized a sophisticated 1822 revolt in Charleston, South Carolina; he and dozens of followers were executed.
Denmark Vesey?
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He is considered the wealthiest person in history from the Mali Empire of West Africa. Worth over $400 Billion.
Who is Mansa Musa?
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This Jamaican Maroon leader organized guerrilla resistance against the British and secured a treaty guaranteeing freedom for her people.
Who is Queen Nanny?
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This formerly enslaved preacher founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church, the first independent Black denomination in America.
Who is Richard Allen?
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Compare and Contrast the American Revolutionary War with the Haitian Revolutionary War. What were the similarities? What were the differences?
Both countries fought violent wars to gain independence. The American Revolutionary war was fought to abolish the Monarchy and create a republic, but did not fight war to also abolish slavery. The Haitian Revolutionary War was fought for the establishment of an independent republic and to abolish slavery.
The American Republic compromised enslaved people to create a union with slave owners.
Haiti became the first independent nation in the Western World to officially ban slavery and slave owners within its borders.
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He was an enslaved man from Louisiana that attempted to assassinate Andrew Jackson after Jackson reneged on a promise to free enslaved soldiers if they helped win the Battle of New Orleans (War of 1812)
Who is James Roberts?
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This enslaved woman escaped to Ohio in 1856 and tragically killed her daughter rather than see her returned to slavery, inspiring debates about freedom and authors like Toni Morrison
Who is Margaret Garner
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The 1803 event, where approximately 75 captives from present-day Nigeria died by mass suicide in Georgia's Dunbar Creek rather than face a life enslaved in the "New World"
What is the Igbo Landing?
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This enslaved man led the 1841 mutiny aboard the slave ship Creole, resulting in freedom for more than 100 enslaved persons.
Who is Madison Washington?
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In 1640 he and two white European indentured servants ran away from Gwyn’s farm. Authorities captured them in Maryland shortly after. The three were brought back for trial in Jamestown, Virginia. The court convened in July and ordered that all three men receive 30 lashes. The judge added four years to the sentences of the two white servants (one extra year of work for Gwyn and three extra years of work for the colony). Instead of imposing the same sentence as the white indentured servants, the judge ordered him to remain a servant for the rest of his life. This case formally established the institution of Enslavement in colonial America.
What is the John Punch Case?
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What are at least two of the compromises involving enslaved people in the Early American Republic?
The 3/5ths Compromise:(1787 US Constitutional Convention) Enabled Southern Slave holding states to use "chattel property" to count towards population of state. Each enslaved body would count as 3/5ths of a person.
Fugitive Slave Act of `1793
The Compromise of 1820: Missouri Becomes Slave State and Maine becomes a Free State
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What was unique about the Black Seminole Indians?
The Black Seminoles were a group of fugitive slaves that joined the Seminole Indians of Florida to fight against the US. They were trained in warfare and horse fighting and during the Indian Removal Act fled from Florida to Oklahoma and then to Mexico where they joined the Mexican Army for protection against the fugitive slave Act.
The Black Seminoles, or Afro-Seminoles, are an ethnic group of mixed Native American and African origin associated with the Seminole people in Florida, Oklahoma, and Mexico. They are mostly blood descendants of the Seminole people, free Africans, and escaped former slaves, who allied with Seminole groups in Spanish Florida.
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This mixed-race enslaved woman successfully sued for her freedom in 1656 based on her father’s English identity and her Christian baptism
Who is Elizabeth Key