Prominent Figures
This individual is one of the most well known Ladinos. He was born in the kingdom of the Kongo but eventually moved to Lisbon, Portugal. As a free black man and conquistador, he participated in the colonization of Florida and other parts of North America.
Who is Juan Garrido?
The journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas where many enslaved people died, were tortured, starved, and attempted to jump overboard.
What is the Middle Passage?
Ghana, Mali, and Songhai are known as the ______
What are the Sudanic Empires?
The amendment that granted Black men voting rights.
What is the 15th amendment?
What instrument does Solomon Northup play?
What is the fiddle/violin?
An enslaved African healer from Morocco. He was forced to work as an explorer and translator in Texas. He was eventually killed by indigenous groups who were resisting Spanish colonialism.
Who is Estevanico?
True or False: Most Africans who were enslaved were captured from eastern Africa
Bonus 200 pts if you can identify three specific places
False. Most slaves were taken from western Africa.
Possible bonus answers: Senegambia, Sierra Leone, Cote d'Ivoire, Ghana, Benin, Nigeria, Angola, Mozambique
This event occurred on the African continent from 1500 BCE to 500 CE and was caused by population growth and resulted in linguistic diversity.
What is the Bantu migration?
This amendment to the constitution officially codified the end of slavery in the United States.
200 pts bonus: what is the exception in the US that technically confers the status of slavery?
What is the 13th amendment?
This individual was born a free man but was later kidnapped in his adult life and forced to work as a slave. He wrote a famous memoir that became the inspiration for the movie 12 Years a Slave.
Who is Solomon Northup?
This 1863 wartime order, declared freedom for enslaved people held in the Confederate states still at war against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This society is best known for their pottery, naturalistic terracotta sculptures of animals and people adorned by various hairstyles and jewelry, and stone instruments. These artifacts are the most ancient extant evidence of a complex, settled society in sub-Saharan Africa.
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and the grandfather clause?
Griots often sang or told this story - example of an epic, tells the story of the founding of the Mali Empire
The Sunjata Story
This individual was a former slave who was given military command of Fort Mose. Fought against English forces throughout his life.
Francisco Menendez
What year was international slave trading banned in the United States?
What 1808?
The term for the practice of Africans blending local spiritual practices with Christianity and/or Islam.
What is religious syncretism?
True or False: The Kingdom of Kongo, for the most part, successfully avoided European colonial violence because they willingly converted to Christianity.
True
Who wrote a petition to the King of Spain asking for recognition and land? Hint: At the time of the petition he was living in what is now Mexico
Who is Juan Garrido?
This individual was an enslaved man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters. The decision made by the Supreme Court is famously known as "the _____ decision"
Who is Dredd Scott?
This legal principal made it so that one's legal status (free or enslaved) depended on the status of the mother.
What is partus ventrem sequitur?
Name of storytellers who passed traditions and stories through spoken word
What are griots?
This group of people aimed to send all former slaves back to Africa.
Bonus 200 points if group can identify the capital of the country they established.
Who wrote the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America"?
Who is Phillis Wheatly?