Vocabulary
What term describes the practice of owning enslaved people?
What is "slavery?"
Who wrote a biography that defended the Portuguese slave trade, stating that Christians had a duty to civilize Africans?
Who is Gomes Eanes de Zurara?
What series of trials in 1692 led to the execution of many accused of witchcraft in Puritan New England?
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
What theory posited that Africans were inferior due to the climate of their homeland?
What is Climate Theory?
Which group published the first antiracist petition in America in 1688?
Who are the Mennonites?
What is the term for the belief that one race is superior to another?
What is racism?
Which prominent physician argued for the gradual emancipation of enslaved people and believed they were not born savages?
Who is Benjamin Rush?
What 1807 Act aimed to stop the importation of enslaved people into the United States?
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade Act?
What theory suggested that Black people were cursed by God, stemming from the curse of Ham?
What is Curse Theory?
What society did Robert Finley start to promote the return of free Blacks to Africa?
What is the American Colonization Society?
What is the concept that refers to the unearned advantages granted to people based on their race?
What is white privilege?
Who founded the American Philosophical Society in 1743?
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Which compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state in 1820?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Which theory claimed that Africans were inherently savage due to a natural human hierarchy?
What is Savage Theory?
What organization was established to promote intellectual exchange among thinkers in 1743?
What is the American Philosophical Society?
THIS term was applied mainly to Black women who had knowledge of herbal medicine, especially in 1692.
What is "witch?"
Who was the first Black woman in America to have her writings published?
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
What agreement counted enslaved people as three-fifths of a person for representation and taxation purposes?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Who believed that slavery was beneficial for African people due to their supposed natural inferiority?
Who is Richard Baxter?
Which petition challenged the accepted racial norms and opposed slavery for the first time?
What is the 1688 Antiracist Petition?
What is the society started with the goal of training free Blacks so that they could care for themselves when returned to Africa?
What is the "American Colonization Society?"
Who argued that Black people were created as an entirely different species?
Who is Lucilio Vanini?
What revolution became a symbol of freedom in 1791?
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Who argued that free Blacks needed training before returning to Africa to civilize it?
Who is Robert Finley?
Cotton Mather organized THIS series of events as a distraction to keep the lower classes divided.
What are The Salem Witch Trials?