The Stono Rebellion
The oldest continuously occupied settlement of African American and European origin in the United States, provided asylum to enslaved refugees
What is St. Augustine, Florida?
January 1, 1804
When is Haitian Indenpendence day?
Daily forms of resistance demonstrated by enslaved and free African Americans
What is: slowing work, breaking tools, stealing food, attempting to runaway, religious and church services
Throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries these funded the growth of Black schools, businessess, independent churches and supported the work of Black writers and speakers
What is mutual-aid societies?
(Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole)
Adopted slave codes
Created slave patrols
Assisted in the recapture of enslaved Black people who fled for freedom.
What are the five large Indigenous American nations?
The first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States.
What is Fort Mose?
(1791–1804) was the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, enslaving government, resulting in a Black republic free of slavery and created the second independent nation in the Americas, after the United States.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
The Largest slave revolt on United States soil, inspired by the Haitian Revolution
What is the German Coast uprising or the Louisiana Revolt of 1811
In the 19th century Black women used these to call attention to the need to consider gender and Black women's experiences in anti-slavery discussions
What are speeches and publications?
They fought alongside the Seminoles in resistance to relocation during the Second Seminole War from 1835 to 1842.
This event was inspired by the offereing of emancipation to enslaved people fleeing the British colonies in South Carolina to Spanish Florida.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This sale nearly doubled the size of the United States, and the federal government made this land available for the expansion of slavery.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This man led up to 500 enslaved people in the largest slave revolt on United States soil, known as the German Coast Uprising, or the Louisiana Revolt of 1811.
Who is Charles Deslondes?
The first Black woman to pubish a political manifesto. Her advocacy in the 1830's contributed to the first wave of of the movement
Who is Maria W. Stewart?
In an effort to help the Choctaw and Chickasaw freedmen secure their rights as tribal citizens, legislators in Arkansas sent this petition to Congress in 1869
What is the Arkansas Petition for Freedmen’s Rights, 1869?
These are the implications of the Stono Rebellions
What is the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740 or British colonial forces invaded Fort Mose?
The most lucrative crop in Saint Domingue (Haiti) in the 18th century.
What is Sugar?
In 1831 this preacher motivated by religious visions this person led a rebellion where about 60 white people were killed, before the uprising was suppressed, resulting in brutal retaliation and harsher slave laws.
Who is Nat Turner?
The intersection of race and gender is a term coined as:
What is intersectionality?
the act of leaving one's own country to settle permanently in another; moving abroad.
What is emigration?
These restrictions were included the South Carolina Slave Code of 1740
Illegal for enslaved Africans to move abroad, assemble in groups, raise food, earn money, and learn to write
Prescribed 1:10 ratio on every plantation
Permission to kill rebellious enslaved people
These are the impacts of the Haiti Revolution on African diasporic communities and Black political thought
What is:
For some African Americans, Haiti’s independence and abolition of slavery highlighted the unfulfilled promises of the American Revolution.
inspired uprisings in other African diasporic communities
The legacy of the Haitian Revolution had an enduring impact on Black political thinking, serving as a symbol of Black freedom and sovereignty.
On July 13, 1802 this document discussed growing slave unrest, prompted by events in the West Indies, and forwarded Virginia's request to deport rebellious slaves to the British Sierra Leone colony, proposing they work as indentured servants to fund the plan, aiming to create a strong colony instead of weak ones and prevent further insurrections at home
Letter from Thomas Jefferson to Rufus King, 1802
Black women activists fought for abolitionism and the rights of women, paving a path for this
What is the women's sufferage movement?
In his West India emancipation speech (1857), He said:"If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Who is Frederick Douglass?