Important People
This former enslaved woman became an abolitionist and women’s right activist, delivering her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech in 1851
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This set of 55+ articles issued by the French King Louis XIV regulated slavery and controlled the lives of people of African descent in the colony.
What was the Black Code of Louisiana?
This former slave was the most important leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who was Toussaint L’Overture?
This doctrine enforced that the free/slave status of a child is dependent on that of the mother.
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem?
This historic day occurred in 1865 and was recognized as a federal holiday in 2021.
What is Juneteenth?
This famous African American led a slave rebellion in 1831 in Virginia that caused panic in slaveowners.
Who is Nat Turner?
Drafted during the nation's founding, this document expanded democratic ideals while also embedding racial compromises that treated enslaved Africans as capital rather than citizens
What is the United States constitution?
This governing document reversed the prevailing functions of racial categories in the Atlantic World.
What is the Haitian Constitution?
This document defined slavery as race-based, inherited through mother.
What are Slave Codes?
This term describes policies or practices that result in unequal outcomes for different racial groups, even without explicit racial intent.
What is systemic racism?
This woman was involved in the 1656 case that resulted in a mothers status determining the child's.
Who is Elizabeth Keys?
This federal law strengthened the power of slaveholders by compelling citizens and officials in free states to engage in the capture of escaped enslaved people. This led to further resistance in the North and abolitionist networks.
What is the Fugitive slave act of 1793?
Haiti officially declared its independence this year, making it the world’s first free Black nation.
When was 1804?
This 1850 law strengthened federal enforcement of slavery by requiring citizens and officials in free states to assist in the capture of escaped enslaved people.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This 20th-century government policy systematically denied mortgages and investment to Black neighborhoods, shaping long-term racial wealth inequality in the United States.
What was redlining?
This important person who organized the town of San basilio de palenque and was its leader.
Who was Benkos Bioho?
This document banned slavery in new territories North of the Ohio river while still allowing enslaved people to be reclaimed by slaveholders.
What was the Northwest ordinance of 1787?
This European power lost its wealthiest colony after years of warfare against enslaved revolutionaries in Saint-Domingue.
What was France?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens and that Congress lacked the power to prohibit slavery in U.S. territories.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This practice, rooted in the post-slavery era, continues to affect political representation by denying voting rights to many formerly incarcerated individuals.
What is felony disenfranchisement?
This enslaved person led the Stono Rebellion.
Who is Jemmy?
This proclamation issued by Britain during the American revolution reframed Black bondage as a military resource by promising freedom to enslaved people who fled masters.
What was Lord Dunmore’s Proclamation?
Haiti’s victory contributed directly to this major U.S. territorial expansion when France abandoned its North American ambitions.
What was the Louisiana Purchase?
This 18th century economic system tied European credit markets, African warfare, plantation labor and the invention of racial hierarchy.
What was the Atlantic World slave-based mercantile system?
Scholars argue that this modern system functions as a continuation of racial control through incarceration, surveillance, and legal discrimination.
What is mass incarceration?