Early Africans in the Americas
These Africans were multilingual and multicultural and were among the first Africans in what became the U.S.
Who were the ladinos?
The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade occurred between these years.
What are the early 1500s to the mid-1800s?
This horrific Middle Passage method of resistance included refusing to eat.
What is staging hunger strikes?
The Constitution counted African Americans as this fraction of a person.
What is 3/5?
Rhythmic African traditions helped form this American genre known for spiritual significance.
What is gospel?
This African conquistador maintained his freedom by serving in the Spanish military.
Who is Juan Garrido?
This number represents the approximate total of enslaved Africans forcibly transported.
What is 12.5 million?
This 1739 uprising in South Carolina was one of the largest slave revolts in the British colonies and led plantation owners to strengthen slave codes.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Article IV, Section 2 stated that people “held to service” could not do this.
What is escape their service?
Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to accomplish this achievement.
What is publish a book?
Africans in the Americas served in this role as part of colonization efforts.
What are conquistadors?
Nearly 48% of Africans brought to the U.S. arrived through this city.
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
In this system, enslaved people worked individually toward a daily quota.
What is the task system?
This 1857 Supreme Court case declared African Americans had no right to citizenship.
What is the Dred Scott case?
African religious traditions blended with Christianity to form religions like these.
What are Vodou, Candomblé, or Santería?
Juan Garrido was the first known African to arrive in this U.S. region..
What is Florida?
These were the top 5 enslaving nations.
What are Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands?
In this system, enslaved people used syncopated work songs to keep pace.
What is the gang system?
The Constitution originally did not include this word.
What is “slave”?
Enslaved people used these cultural traditions to maintain identity and community.
What are music, religion, and oral storytelling?
Africans in colonization could be enslaved laborers, free skilled workers, or this.
What are leaders of expeditions?
African states participated in the slave trade mostly through these actions.
What is capturing and trading war prisoners?
The growth of the cotton industry caused this major impact on enslaved families.
What is more family separation?
This legal principle meant a child’s status followed the mother, shaping racial categories for centuries.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?(follow the belly rule)
Olaudah Equiano purchased his freedom and became known for this.
What is being an abolitionist?