AFRICA BEFORE ENSLAVEMENT
This powerful West African empire grew wealthy through gold and salt trade.
What is Ghana?
This group financially benefited most from the slave trade.
What are European merchants or traders?
This crop dominated plantation labor in the Caribbean and Brazil.
What is sugar?
This everyday form of resistance included slowing work or feigning illness.
What is day-to-day resistance?
This term referred to people who helped enslaved individuals escape to freedom.
What are conductors?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
These laws restricted African Americans’ rights after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
The forced movement of Africans to the Americas.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This famous ruler of Mali is known for his pilgrimage to Mecca.
Who is Mansa Musa?
This brutal journey transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
Middle Passage
This legal status defined enslaved people as property.
What is Chattel Slavery?
This act of resistance involved escaping bondage permanently.
This formerly enslaved woman made repeated dangerous trips to guide others to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
This was the main goal of Black Codes.
What is limiting African American freedom and rights?
The belief that Europeans were superior to Africans.
What is white supremacy?
This misconception falsely portrayed Africa as uncivilized to justify enslavement.
What is the myth of African inferiority?
These European goods were exchanged for enslaved Africans.
What are guns, textiles, alcohol, or manufactured goods?
By maintaining oral histories during and after enslavement, _________________represent this form of resistance that helped sustain African identity in the diaspora.
What are griots?
This 1739 rebellion took place in South Carolina.
This geographic factor made the Underground Railroad especially active in northern states.
Proximity to Canada?
This amendment officially ended slavery in the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This system replaced slavery with forced labor through legal loopholes.
What is convict leasing? (or labor control systems)
The process of stripping people of their culture and humanity.
what is dehumanization?
This African trading city connected trans-Saharan routes to global commerce.
What is Timbuktu?
This European nation dominated sugar production in Saint-Domingue.
What is France?
This concept explains how slavery became tied specifically to race.
What is the racialization of slavery?
This revolution in the Caribbean terrified slaveholders across the Atlantic world.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Other than Canada where did enslaved people escape to?
This was the main goal of African American petitions in 1865.
What is gaining suffrage (voting rights)?
This was a major service provided by the Freedmen’s Bureau.
What is establishing schools?
A system where ancestry determined freedom or enslavement.
What is hereditary slavery?
This factor made some African states vulnerable to European exploitation.
What is internal conflict or ethnic fractionalization
The first European Nation to explore Africa and bring slaves to the Americas.
This group developed some of the harshest slave codes in the Americas.
Who are Caribbean plantation colonies (especially French & British)?
This leader’s resistance challenges the idea that Africans were passive victims by demonstrating strategic agency within the Atlantic World.
What is Queen Nzinga
This free Black abolitionist in Philadelphia helped fund and coordinate escape networks.
William Still
This amendment most directly enabled Black men to hold political office during Reconstruction.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
This was the main goal of African American petitions in 1865.
What is gaining suffrage (voting rights)?
The study of African-descended peoples’ history and culture.