This slave fort was the first of its kind in West Africa.
What is El Mina
100
St. Barbara and Shango are both associated with this characteristic, which explains why they were syncretized in Santeria.
What is thunder?
100
The African influenced religions of Cumina and Convince have their homes in this nation.
What is Jamaica?
100
This Black intellectual wrote a rebuttal letter to Thomas Jefferson's "Notes on the State of VA."
Who is Benjamin Banneker
100
This was written by Thomas Jefferson in 1787, banning slavery in the new territories.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
200
This European nation was the first to begin the slave trade in West Africa.
What is Portugal
200
Vodou is a mystical religion with African roots that has its home in this country?
What is Haiti?
200
These holy figures are both associated with feminine power and have been syncretized in Vodou.
Who are the Virgin Mary and the Goddess Erzuli?
200
This clause in the U.S. constitution was used to determine taxation and representation and only counted what percentage of the enslaved population?
What is 60%
200
This philosopher made popular the notions of Natural Rights and the Social Contract Theory, later included in the Declaration of Independence.
Who is John Locke
300
The Scramble occurred during this phase.
What is Phase 5?
300
This group is world known for their African inspired sweetgrass baskets that they've made for centuries in the U.S.
Who are the Gullah Geechee?
300
This Ashanti/Akan god has been associated with trickster stories across the globe and has had his name used to identify spiders in Colombia and South Carolina.
Who is Anansi?
300
These were the names of Washington's and Jefferson's massive slave plantations.
What are Mt. Vernon and Monticello?
300
This invention propelled slavery forward throughout the 19th century.
What is the cotton gin?
400
The middle passage and initial landing and selling can be most associated with these two themes.
What are dehumanization and profit motive?
400
The man who traveled to South Carolina and wrote down the stories he heard from the Black community.
Who is Joel Chandler Harris?
400
Music, more specifically drums are a central part of this West African religious value.
What is spirit possession?
400
This state was the primary importer of slaves in the 18th Century.
South Carolina
400
Even though its content relates to slavery, the words slavery and slave never appear in the document.
What is the U.S. Constitution
500
This theme is the most prevalent theme in Phase 1 and Phase 6
What is breakdown of family?
500
Stories, religious beliefs, and songs have all been passed down by way of this tradition.
What is the oral tradition?
500
The system of divination that survives almost unchanged from the Yoruba culture in West Africa to Cuba centuries later.
What is Ifa?
500
These were the types of slaves that the widow Martha Custis inherited from her dead husband and brought to her Marriage to George Washington.
Dower Slaves
500
The process in which Northern governments imposed that persons born as slaves would be freed after decades of enslavement was known as this.