Atlantic Africans and the Transatlantic Slave Trade
The number of Africans forced onto known voyages of slave ships
More than 12.5 million
The invention of this machine increase reliance on the most well known cash crop
What is the cotton gin?
Blending of traditional African beliefs with monotheistic faiths
What is Syncretism?
Name two ways enslaved Africans resisted on slave ships
Revolts (take over the ship), jump off, work together with other passengers, etc
The first known African to arrive in North America (hew as a conquistador)- from Kingdom of The Kongo
Who is Juan Guarrido?
These were free and enslaved Africans familiar with Iberian culture who journeyed with Europeans and became some of the first Africans in the what would become the United States
Who were Ladinos
What caused the expansion of the domestic slave trade and the growth of slavery through child birth?
Government ban of the slave trade entirely in 1808
These are two things that churches were used for prior to emancipation?
This resulted in the only Free black republic
What is the Haitian Revolution?
These law typically intensified after an attempted slave uprising
What are slave codes?
The second part of the slave trade journey
What is the Middle Passage
This crop led to the expansion of the domestic slave trade
Cotton
Partus Sequitur Ventrem defined…
The legal status of a child based on the status of its mother
This is the name of the first free Black U.S town
Fort Mose (led by Francisco Menendez)
This women was the first African America woman to publish a book of poetry
Who is Phillis Wheatly?
What were the primary slave trading zones in Africa?
Senegambia, Angola, Mozambique, Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone
The crops that played a significant role in the development of Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Atlantic
Name two musical genres that were developed and influenced by enslaved African Americans and their descendants
Jazz, Hip Hop, Gospel etc
Escaped slaves who established free communities
Maroons
Haitian general who fought for freedom but sadly was unable to see the fruits of his labor
Who is Toussaint Louverture ?
What were the diverse roles Africans played during the colonization of the Americas in the 16th century?
Conquistadores, enslaved laborers, and free skilled workers/artisans
What event (or group of events) led to the availability of more land that helped expand cotton production and thus slavery?
The trail of tears
Name two functions of Negro spirituals
To send messages and to express hope
Name two ways that free Blacks and/ or women called attention to the abolitionist cause?
What are pamphlets, speeches, slave narratives?
Famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who also worked as a spy during the Civil War
Who is Harriet Tubman?