Transatlantic Slave Trade 1500s-1800s
Who was Juan Garrido? What were Ladinos role in the Americas?
Juan Garrido was a black conquistador during the discovery of the New World. The Ladino people are a mix of mestizo or Hispanicized peoples in Latin America, principally in Central America. The demonym Ladino is a Spanish word that is related to Latino. Ladinos served as intermediaries and played a vital role in European claims to indigenous lands
What is the primary purpose of spirituals like "Steal Away"?
Biblical meanings and hidden messages of escaping
a 17th-century law, defined a child’s legal status based on the status of its mother and held significant consequences for enslaved African Americans
Partus sequitur ventrem
When was the American Civil War?
1861-1865
Haitian Revolution
the most successful slave rebellion in world history
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The transatlantic slave trade lasted for over 350 years and brought approximately 388,000 enslaved Africans directly to the United States
What event allowed for the expansion of slavery in the United States?
Trail of Tears and the Louisiana Purchase made lands available for large-scale cotton production
What was the Stono Rebellion?
•The emancipation from slavery offered by Spanish Florida to slaves fleeing the British colonies inspired the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739 resulting in the biggest slave revolt in the United States
Name of time period following the American Civil War
Reconstruction Era
Maroon Societies
Indepedent communities founded by escaped enslaved individuals
Identify the influence of diverse African ethnic groups on African American culture in the United States
Various African ethnic groups interacted, leading to diverse African-based cultural practices within African American communities.
Explain the gang system versus the task system
•enslaved laborers worked in groups from sunup to sundown, under
the watch and discipline of an overseer
•enslaved people worked individually until they met a daily quota, generally with less supervision.
It transformed a European colony (Saint-Domingue) into a Black republic free
Haitian Revolution
Signifiance of "The Colored Soldiers" by Paul Dunbar
Contributions of Black soldiers during the American Civil War
Slave Codes
laws and policies that were enforced to restrict slave movements and freedoms throughout the Antebellum Era in the American South
In which ways did the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade impact African communnities throughout the continent?
Family and community links from generation to generations were disrupted, Economic resources were taken advantage of by slave traders, Already wealthy kings and leaders prospered off of the growing slave trade
______________defined chattel slavery as a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition and included restrictions against freedom of movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities
Slave codes defined chattel slavery as a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition and included restrictions against freedom
of movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities
True or False? The cost of fighting Haitians prompted Napoleon to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States. This sale nearly doubled the size of the U.S. and also increased the land available for the expansion of slavery.
True
Who was Frederick Douglass
Abolitionist, former slaver, novelist
Scott v. Sanford
Supreme Court case that ruled that slaves were not citizens therefore they could not sue in a court of law
Name of route at the bottom of the Triangular Slave Trade
Middle Passage
True or False? In addition to agricultural work, enslaved people learned specialized trades and worked as painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, and healers in the North and South. Once free, American Americans used these skills to provide for themselves and others
True
Name four-five examples of slave resistance
Enslaved people continually resisted their enslavement by slowing work, breaking tools, stealing food, or attempting to run away.
Define chattel slavery
the buying and selling of human beings for the purposes of labor; individuals are considered property adn can be treated as commodities
"La Amistad"
slave ship mutiny that resulted in African captives taking over a slave ship, ultimately, landing in New England and sued for their freedom