Slave Narratives
Who wrote "12 Years a Slave"?
Solomon Northup
True or False. All ages and genders performed skilled labor in urban and rural locations?
True
What did they do to prepare slaves for auction?
They cleaned, dressed, and displayed the slaves orderly
What was the Domestic Slave Trade known as?
The Second Middle Passage
What was Chattel Slavery and the Domestic Slave Trade?
Chattel slavery and the domestic slave trade demonstrated the dehumanization of African Americans while also highlighting enslaved Africans efforts to gain freedom and preserve culture. Slave narratives and photography were necessary to help us understand both the harsh realities of slavery and the ways enslaved people resisted and maintained their identity.
Enslaved women not only suffered from the Master but also from who?
Mistress/Wife of Master
These types of crops did enslaved Africans often harvest, showing the difficult labor required during slavery?
Sugar cane, rice, and cotton
What term was used to describe enslaved people being sold as property at auctions?
Chattel
The Domestic Slave trade increased due to what invention?
Cotton Gin
Slave Narratives were not only relative in the U.S but also the West Indies, because of who?
Mary Prince
What system cultivated Rice and Indigo?
Task System
The growth of Slave Auctions and Domestic Trade grew due to this being banned in 1808?
Transatlantic Slave Trade
Name the slave master who sexually harassed Harriet Jacobs?
Dr. Flint
Harriet Jacobs highlights how her master’s sexual abuse extended beyond her, affecting this aspect of her life?
Her family relationships and love life
Things like rice baskets were crafted by slaves to preserve their African culture and also prove they were what?
Skilled Laborers
In advertisements for slave auctions, what information about enslaved people was typically listed to appeal to buyers?
Age, gender, physical condition, skills, and sometimes family connections
What skill did enslaved Africans preserve through making baskets?
Weaving
In Mary Prince’s narrative, she compares being displayed at a slave auction to this, emphasizing her lack of autonomy?
Being treated like a calf or lamb for sale
What did Gang Systems create to keep pace of work?
Syncopated rhythms
Which port city hosted the largest early 18th-century U.S. auctions?
Charleston, South Carolina
Which Caribbean island was Mary Prince born on?
Bermuda