Vocabulary 1
These people watched over and directed the slaves' work.
What is Overseers?
These things rarely served as reasons to stop working for slaves.
What are Sickness and/or Poor Weather?
Slaveholders used this to force enslaved people to accept mistreatment.
What is Religion?
What is a Planned Escape?
This person took a Solar Eclipse as a sign of God to start a rebellion.
Who is Nat Turner?
Enslaved African Americans used these to express their beliefs.
The majority of slaves worked as these on plantations.
What are Field Hands?
Slaves often worshipped and practiced religion at this time to evade slaveholders.
What is Nighttime?
This happened after Nat Turner led a rebellion in the South, and it caused the grip of slavery to grow even tighter for African Americans.
What are Harsh Laws?
These stories often included animals with human characteristics.
What are Folktales?
This was used to pass on stories, poems, and songs by word of mouth.
What is Oral Tradition?
Enslaved people often resided in poor conditions, like these run-down structures.
What are Small Cabins?
Folktales often had these, such as a rabbit beating a larger animal like a bear.
What is a Moral?
Slaves typically escaped to this place.
What is the North?
This is an umbrella term that encompasses how African Americans pass down cultures and customs.
What are Oral Traditions?
This is a story with a moral.
What is a Folktale?
Slaveholders used this to gain obedience.
What are Punishments?
This helped enslaved African Americans to endure the hardships of plantation life.
What is Shared/Common Culture?
Some slaves worked slowly or used damaged equipment to do this against slaveholders.
What is Protest?
Present day gospel, blues, and jazz were influenced by this.
What are Spirituals?
The most famous slave rebellion was led by this person, who was eventually tried and hung.
Some consider this to be the cruelest part of slavery.
Enslaved people often did this, however, it was not legally recognized.
What is Marriage?
Nat Turner and others rebelled against their slaveholders by doing this to them.
What is Killing Them?
Slaves who worked inside did not have these, however slaves who worked outside did.
What are Overseers?