Transatlantic Slave Trade
Slavery in the Americas
Law, Slavery, Race
Culture, Identity, and Community
Resistance and Revolts
100
This region of Africa supplied a large proportion of enslaved Africans sent to North America.
What is West and West Central Africa?
100
Owning of human beings as property able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited, is known as.....
What is chattel slavery?
100
These laws defined enslaved people as property and restricted their rights.
What are slave codes?
100
This is where maroon communities were located
What are remote areas such as mountains, swamps, or dense forests in places like the Caribbean, South America, and the Southeastern United States
100
This 1739 rebellion in South Carolina was one of the largest slave uprisings in British North America.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
200
This term refers to the journey enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
200
This internal slave trade saw the forced relocation of enslaved people from the Upper South to newly established cotton plantations in the Deep South, transforming the economies of both regions.
What is the Second Middle Passage? or the Domestic Slave Trade
200
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans could not be U.S. citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
Latinized Black people who were born or raised in Spain, Portugal or these nations' Atlantic or American colonies and who spoke fluent Spanish or Portuguese
Who are Ladinos?
200
These communities were formed by formerly enslaved people who escaped and lived independently.
What are maroon societies?
300
…Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions have been born of earnest struggle…If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will…In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North, and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages, and make no resistance, either moral or physical…
Source: “West India Emancipation” by Frederick Douglass, 1857
Those who agreed with Frederick Douglass’ argument in the text were called…
What is an anti-emigrationist?
300
This concept explains how race was created to justify unequal treatment and enslavement.
What is the social construction of race?
300
The most photographed man in the U.S during the 19th century.
What is Frederick Douglass?
300
This Caribbean revolution led to the first Black republic and the abolition of slavery.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
400
Marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion—Texas. It commemorates the day that enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, were informed that they were free by a Union general’s reading of General Order No. 3. This order was the first document to mention racial equality through “an absolute equality of personal rights and rights of property between former masters and slaves."
What is Juneteenth?
400
This legal principle meant a child’s status followed that of the mother, reinforcing hereditary slavery.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
400
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
Name a reason people criticized this organization.
American Colonization Society
What is the American Colonization Society was created by white people to send free Black people back to Africa - did not want a large free Black population, took focus from abolitionism, effects of colonization on the indigenous groups, etc.
500
Compromise that "
required citizens to assist in the capture of runaway slaves and penalized those who helped slaves escape. This law angered abolitionists and intensified anti-slavery sentiments in the North."
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?