Vocab
This religious system was used to both justify and abolish slavery
Christianity
This author wrote a famous slave narrative about her escape from captivity where she lived in an attic for seven years
Harriet Jacobs
The preacher who led a slave rebellion that set off a period of terrorism of freed and enslaved black people throughout the south
Nat Turner
The autobiographical accounts of enslaved Africans and their descendants
slave narrative
The enslaved choosing to not eat was a form of
resistance
This is a person of mixed Black and white ancestry.
mulatto
These abolitionists escaped slavery by disguising themselves as a slaveowner and his slave.
William and Ellen Craft
What figurative language does Olaudah Equiano use to describe the treatment of the Africans kidnapped and enslaved?
He compares them to sheep to emphasize dehumanization
A form of labor in which a person is contracted to work without salary for a specific number of years
indentured servant (servitude)
Who can be credited with the palette of the American South?
the enslaved
This trade route involved three ports, with the Middle Passage being its most profitable leg.
Triangular Trade (Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade)
James M. Whitefield and Frances E. Harper both wrote _________.
poems
The first country where the enslaved permanently freed themselves from slavery and gained independence.
Haiti
The global community of people who are descended from Africans
African Diaspora
This city built on the wealth of rice was a major port for the transatlantic slave trade.
Charleston, SC
This term refers to agricultural products produced primarily for profit.
cash crops
This enslaved woman demonstrated Africans were capable of high art when she became a renowned poet and wrote about her experiences.
Phillis Wheatley
What year did the White Lion bring its first African human cargo to Virginia birthing the people Born on the Water?
1619
Brer Rabbit, Bear, Sis Cat, Brer Fox are each
tricksters/folktale characters
People who were able to preserve their Africanisms including seasonal dishes due to isolation
Gullah/Geeche
These groups of people escaped slavery and established their own communities.
maroons
This leader wrote Appeals to persuade Christian Americans to abolish slavery inspiring Nat Turner's slave rebellion in Virginia
David Walker
What was often a topic of spirituals during this time period?
Dreaming about freedom or plotting escape
A theory that seeks to reclaim the performance of racialized gender – often deemed “inappropriate, reductive, and unproductive”
Trap Feminism
Gabrielle Etienne and Brother BJ all work to preserve culinary traditions, but what are one of the threats to their efforts?
eminent domain
heir's property
manipulation of land prices
gentrification