Writing and Grammar
A group of words with a subject and verb pair
What is a clause?
How many people were kidnapped and forced to migrate to the Americas during the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade?
Who are 12.5 million people?
What is one of the reasons why working on a slave ship was dangerous for sailors?
What are slave revolts?
The author of "The Eagle Poem"
Who is Joy Harjo?
This pro-slavery writer says that slavery is a "positive good"
Who is John C. Calhoun?
A clause that makes sense by itself
What is an independent clause?
This is a synonym for "slave ship"?
What is a "Guineaman" or a "slaver"?
When a person or a small group of people run away temporarily into local ecosystems like swamps or forests
What is petit marronage?
He is a writer from the Pequot nation?
Who is William Apess?
This pro-slavery argument involves religion
What is the pro-slavery argument, God ordains slavery?
An independent clause with two or more dependent clauses
What is a complex sentence?
Sailors and officers on slave ships would hide behind this structure built on the deck.
What is a barricado?
When people run away into local ecosystems, and are able to build larger communities that last generations
What is grand marronage?
To be from a place, and to have that place comprise aspects of your identity and worldview
What is indigeneity?
Slave Traders and slave ship investors had this goal in mind when making decisions about how many captive Africans to put on a boat
What is to maximize profit?
This helps to immerse your reader into the world of your narrative?
What are sensory details?
This database includes data from nearly four hundred years of slave voyages
What is the slave voyages database?
What is the name of the main character in Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave?
Who is Madison Washington?
The idea that a people should have the right to govern themselves
What is sovereignty?
Slave ship captains would use these creatures to terrorize sailors and kidnapped Africans
What are sharks?
What is FANBOYS?
What do we call the myriad ways in which enslaved people fought back?
What is slave resistance?
This genre of literature helped Black abolitionists persuade readers to become abolitionists?
What is the slave narrative?
This writer wrote Life Among the Paiutes: Their Wrongs and Claims
Who is Sara Winnemucca Hopkins?
In its racist, pro-slavery propaganda, the slaveholders of this country often (and wrongly) argued that their form of slavery was mild, even beneficient.
What is the United States?