AAS Grab Bag
This European country was one of the first to develop the Atlantic Slave Trade in the 15th century.
What is Portugal?
This was the name given to the forced voyage of African slaves across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
This status was originally not placed on the first Africans in Virginia.
What is slavery?
These commercial agricultural products were grown in the Americas and often required slave labor.
What were cash crops?
In 1852, she published an highly influential novel about the hardships of slavery entitled, Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This was something that enslaved mothers were often required to do on plantations.
What was prioritize the care of white children over their own?
This is what Portuguese sailors were looking for when they explored the west coast of Africa in 1441.
What was gold or gold dust?
This Founding Father said, “we have the wolf by the ear, and we can neither hold him nor safely let him go” in reference to slavery.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The states of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas created this in February 1861.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This Black woman is the best known conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This new national holiday on June 19th commemorates the date in 1865 when news of the Confederate defeat reached slaves in Texas.
What is Juneteenth?
This was the primary reason that Native Americans were not a good source of labor in the New World.
What is many were killed by European diseases?
This was the main reason slave owners bought female slaves.
What is to reproduce?
This 1831 event in Virginia triggered a law in Mississippi requiring free black people to leave or risk being sold into slavery.
What was the Nat Turner Revolt?
This Black abolitionist was one of the earliest speakers to address Black women’s unique experiences under slavery.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
When this executive order went into effect on January 1, 1863, it freed the slaves in the states in rebellion.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This racist notion that whites were masters and blacks were slaves was a major difference between slavery in Africa and
What is Colonial America?
This was the cash crop many English colonists came to Colonial Virginia to grow.
What is tobacco?
These were laws and policies developed to restrict the movement and freedom of Black people during the Antebellum Period?
What were the Black Codes?
Solomon Northup was an activist and free Black man most famous for his book based on his experience as a slave.
What is Twelve Years a Slave?
This famous 1851 speech by Sojourner Truth addressed the hardships of female slaves.
What is ‘Ain’t I a Woman?
This was the year that the first Africans were brought to Jamestown.
What is 1619?
This was the reason that indentured servants were not seen as a long term labor solution in Colonial America.
What is indentured servants were a short term solution?
This organization was formed to send free Blacks back to Africa.
What was the American Colonization Society?
This white abolitionist was an early advocate of women’s rights and a friend of Frederick Douglass.
Who was Wendell Phillips?