Black History
a musical dancer and performer and spy during WWII
Josephine Baker
the number of slaves in the South
4 million
Their goal was to convert as many people as possible to Christianity
Evangelical Preachers
means God is with us
Emanuel
-Name of MLK’s last speech
Mountaintop
The number of trips Harriet Tubman made to make slaves free
13
Paper that Fredrick Douglass started to get the perspective of slavery by blacks
North Star
message from the bible that enslaved people gravitated to
Exodus
-first things the newly freed slaves did
built churches
said all newly freed slaves would get 40 acres of land
Special Field Order No. 15
This man was an abolitionist who helped Henry Brown escape
Sam Adams
One of the two books besides the Bible that Fredrick Douglass learned to read
Columbian Orator
Made it illegal to teach a slave to read and write
Negro Act of 1840
how many black joined the military during the Civil War
200,000
-was a Baptist minister who wrote The Sun do Move, the Earth is squared and said you do not need a formal education to be a minister
John Jasper
-Abolitionist and editor of The Liberator newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison
Fredrick Douglass said this day is hypocrisy and means nothing to the black slave
4th of July
The invention of this in 1793 expanded the domestic slave trade
Cotton Gin
spokesperson for black ministers after Civil War during reconstruction said blacks should get land
Garrison Frazier
Was passed by Congress in 1850 that said escaped slaves must be returned to their masters.
Fugitive Slave Act
a preacher who said he was called by God to lead a slave rebellion
Nat Turner
A person used to force slaves into submission by using brutal tactics to break them physically, mentally, and spiritually. Fredrick Douglass was sent to one.
slave breaker
Free and enslaved blacks were drawn to this church because they were anti-slavery
Methodist church
The document that freed all slaves
Emancipation Proclamation
He differed on his views from Fredrick Douglass and said blacks need to use violence if necessary for their freedom
Henery Garrnet