Old World vs
New World Slavery
New World Slavery
Historians typically separate the history of slavery into these two distinct periods; one is often termed "ancient" and the other "chattel."
Old World and New World
Although the word "slavery" does not appear in the original text, these 2 specific clauses (like the 3/5ths clause) legally solidified the institution.
-Amendment Provision--the importation of Africans could not be stopped before1808
-Fugitive Slave Clause -- escaped slaves can be returned back to slave states
Region(s) in the US that saw great economic and social gains from the institution of slavery.
The entire country
A major part of her civil rights activism is her song, "Strange Fruit."
Billy Holiday
Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman are prominent examples of people belonging to this activist group seeking to end slavery.
Abolitionists
This term describes a specific type of civilization where the entire economic and social structure is fundamentally based on enslaved labor, rather than just being a "society with slaves."
Slave Society
This infamous 1857 Supreme Court case declared that Black people, free or enslaved, could not be citizens and had no standing in federal court.
Dred Scott
Of the two ways shipping companies transported enslaved people, this resulted in the most economic gains.
Tight packing
The name for the movement of Black folks from rural areas and the South to cities and the North
The Great Migration
Despite arguments about "states' rights," this was the specific reason Southern states gave in their secession declarations for initiating the Civil War.
Slavery
This term describes a specific type of civilization where the entire economic and social structure is fundamentally based on enslaved labor, rather than just being a "society with slaves."
Slave Society
This specific financial institution is often cited as having raised the capital necessary to fuel the African slave trade.
Indigenous Slavery
He wrote "Democracy in America" and commented on how industry and creativity in America were affected by slavery
Alex de Tocqueville
This movie was the first to be shown in the White House and was an effective recruitment tool for the Ku Klux Klan
Birth of a Nation
In 1852, Frederick Douglass gave this searing speech about the concept of American Freedom and Hypocrisy.
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
How many slave societies have existed in the history of the world?
5
This three-part economic system involved shipping goods to Africa, enslaved people to the Americas, and raw materials back to Europe.
Triangle Trade or Transatlantic Slave Trade
Three ways the Constitution supports slavery
1. 3/5 clause
2. Fugitive slave law
3. Postponing ending the Atlantic Trade until 1808
She was a journalist and co-founder of the NAACP who exposed the lies that white media outlets told about the lynching of Black men.
Ida B. Wells
This was the famous slave ship rebellion made into a film by Steven Spielberg
The Amistad
He exposed the horrors of the burgeoning Native American Slave Trade and advocated for the use of Africans.
Bartolome de las Casas
By the end of the 19th century, this many million African people (approximately) had been kidnapped and trafficked, devastating the continent's population growth.
12-13 million
We talked about the 3 major phases of history of the Black experience in America. What are they?
1. Denial of freedom to 1865
2. Denial of freedom with the Struggle for citizenship to 1965
3. Questionable Progress since 1965
What year did the film, Birth of a Nation, come out?
1915
This man was a militant abolitionist and leader in Boston's Underground Railroad, known for protecting fugitives with gunpowder at his door.
Lewis Hayden