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Transatlantic Slave Trade + The Middle Passage
Forms of Resistance
Legislation
100
This term refers to Africans who worked as intermediaries before the predominance of chattel slavery. Their familiarity with multiple languages, cultural norms, and commercial practices granted them a measure of social mobility.
Ladinos (Atlantic creoles)
100
This conquistador born in the Kingdom of Kongo, moved to Lisbon, Portugal. A free man, he became the first known African to arrive in North America when he explored present-day Florida during a Spanish expedition in 1513.
Juan Garrido
100
Of the Africans who survived the journey, around what percentage came directly from Africa to what became the United States?
approximately 5 percent
100
Abolitionists helped enable the creation of these texts that were designed to help end slavery and the slave trade, demonstrate Black humanity, and advocate for the inclusion of people of African descent in American society
Slave narratives
100
This term specifically refers to servitude that is race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition and included restrictions on movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities.
Chattel slavery
200
Name at least four skilled trades that Africans were brought to the Americas to perform.
Answers may vary -- may include **but are not limited to the following**:
Blacksmith work, cultivation of crops like rice, indigo, sugarcane, and corn, leatherworking, carpentry, tailoring, boatmaking, domestic labor, masonry, basket weaving, shoemaking, waiters, artisans, etc
200
This free African American musician was captured and illegally sold into slavery on a cotton plantation in Louisiana and provided an eyewitness account in his narrative Twelve Years a Slave.
Solomon Northup
200
In the Middle Passage, approximately how many months did it take for ships to cross the Atlantic from Africa to North America?
Approximately 3 months
200
Black and white antislavery activists circulated what images to raise awareness of the dehumanizing conditions of the Middle Passage.
Diagrams of slave ships
200
South Carolina’s 1740 slave code was updated in response to enslaved people’s resistance during this rebellion that took place in 1739.
The Stono Rebellion
300
The transatlantic slave trade was legally abolished in the United States in what year?
1808
300
Name the leader of the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial, enslaving government. It transformed a European colony (Saint-Domingue) into a Black republic free of slavery.
Toussaint L’Ouverture
300
What are some ways that the transatlantic slave trade impacted coastal African states? (Give a positive or negative impact)
Answers may vary -- possibilities can include **but are not limited to**** ...
Increasing wealth from trade in goods and people.
Interior states became less stable due to constant threat of capture and enslavement.
300
Name at least three ways that enslaved Africans were able to retain and create a culture for themselves despite their conditions as enslaved people in the Americas.
Creating a lingua franca (common language), hymns and spirituals, drumming, quilting, creation of pottery, creation of instruments out of everyday items, storytelling, syncretic spiritual practices
300
The court case that took place in 1857 resulted in the Supreme Court’s decision that African Americans, enslaved and free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott’s freedom suit
400
In 1656, this woman was the first Black woman in North America to sue for her freedom and win.
Elizabeth Key
(Extra Note: The "partus sequitur ventrem" law was passed by the General Assembly of Virginia and spread throughout the remaining 13 colonies in response to this case.)
400
This activist addressed his Appeal to the larger African diaspora and rejected the idea of emigration to Africa. He wrote to counter Thomas Jefferson’s arguments in Notes on the State of Virginia (1785)—namely that African Americans were inferior by nature, benefited from slavery, were incapable of self-government, and, if freed, should emigrate.
David Walker
400
More enslaved Africans disembarked in this country than anywhere else in the Americas.
Brazil
400
Inspired by the Haitian Revolution, Charles Deslondes led up to 500 enslaved people in the largest slave revolt on United States soil Deslondes organized support across local plantations and maroon communities (including selfemancipated people from Haiti) and led them on a march toward New Orleans. The revolt was violently suppressed.
The German Coast Uprising, or the Louisiana Revolt of 1811.
400
"Partus sequitur ventrem" was a seventeenth-century law designed to ensure that a child's legal status was based on the status of what family member?
The mother
(Extra note: partus sequitur ventrem translates to "offspring follows belly")
500
American blues contains the same musical system as the fodet from what region of Africa?
Senegambia and West Central African
500
Came to support African American emigration in the mid-nineteenth century. He helped establish the Cuban Anti-Slavery Society in New York (1872) and was appointed United States minister to Liberia after the Civil War. Author of "An Address to the Slaves of the United States" (1843)
Henry Highland Garnet
500
Brazil became the last country to abolish slavery?
1888
500
One of the first Black women to publish a political manifesto and one of the first American women to give a public address. Her advocacy in the 1830s contributed to the first wave of the feminist movement. Author of "Why Sit Here and Die"
Maria W. Stewart
500
A practice that classified a person with any degree of African descent as black and as part of a singular, inferior status group.
The “one-drop rule”