Early Atlantic Africans
Africans who were familiar with Iberian languages and customs
Who were Ladinos
The approximate number if Africans forcibly taken across the Atlantic
What is 12.5 million?
The average percentage of Africans who died during the Middle Passage
What is 15%
A cultural group from Nigeria know for spirituality and art
Who are the Yoruba?
The constitution counted enslave people as this fraction for representation
What is three-fifths
The 1st known African to arrive in North America, a free conquistador
Who is Juan Garrido?
The percent of enslaved Africans brought directly to the U.S.
What is 5%?
Ship diagrams created in the 1700's showed this
What were the cramped and brutal conditions of enslaved Africans
Language and culture that developed int he Carolina Lowcountry under the task system
What is Gullah?
Laws that made slavery racial, lifelong, and inheritable
What are slave codes?
This enslaved Moroccan explorer traveled through the American Southwest.
Who is Estevanico?
The largest U.S. Port of entry for enslaved Africans
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
Leader of the 1839 revolt on the ship La Amistad
Who was Sengbe Pieh (Cinque)?
A major West African crop whose agricultural knowledge shaped Carolina plantations
Rice
This rebellion led directly to the harsh 1740 slave code in South Carolina
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Africans who blended African and European cultures and often served as translators
Who were Atlantic creoles?
European nation responsible for transporting the most enslaved Africans
Portugal
One major way shipboard revolts changed slave ship design or operation
What is adding nets, more crew, barricades, or weapons?
These traditions strongly influenced the American blues
What are Senegambian musical traditions
The principle that a child's status followed that of the mother
What is parts sequitur ventrem?
The European empire that first transported ladinos to the Americas
What us Spain?
The 2 major African regions that nearly half of enslaved North Americans came from.
What are Senegambia and Angola
The term for the voyage from African to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
13th Amendment
14th Amendment
15th Amendment
abolished slavery
states rights/due process
right to vote for black men
The racial rule that classified anyone with African ancestry as Black
What is the 1 drop rule/ hypodescent