Economy
What product was the lower south dominated with?
Slave-cotton system
Charles Deslondes
Led up to 500 people in the largest slave revolt on US soil
What did music and faith traditions contribute?
songs enslaved people sang to articulate their hardships and hopes
What were slave narratives designed for?
To end slavery, the slave trade and to demonstrate black humanity
When did the US government ban the transatlantic slave trade?
1808
What did the Haitians prompt Napoleon to do?
Sell the Louisiana Territory to the US
Madison Washington
An enslaved crook who led a mutiny aboard the slave brig creole
How did African Americans tell stories and keep memories?
Pottery and quilt making
How did African captives resist the slave trade
Hunger strikes, jumping overboard, and forming revolts
Why was the American colonization founded?
Seeking to exile the growing free black population to Africa
Why was the fugitive slave act put in place
Too many slaves were leaving which was bad for the economy
Maria W Stewart
First black women to publish a political manifesto and one of the first American women to give a public address
What did religious services and churches serve as?
Sites for community gathering, celebration, mourning, organizing, and sharing information
Enslaved refugees escaped to where in the seventeenth century?
St Augustine to seek asylum
What was the goverments response to the Stono Rebellion?
A restrictive slave code
Why did Sojourner Truth sell her carte-de-visites
To raise money for the abolitionist cause
Queen Nanny
Led maroons in Jamaica in the wars against the English in the 18th century
In the late 18th century where did black people build community?
Cities like Philadelphi, New York, New Orleans
What was the result of the Haitian rebellion?
Overturned the colonial, enslaving government
Who did Maroon leaders make treaties with
Colonial governments that required them to assist in extinguishing slave rebellions
Why did free African Americans in the north raise money
For formerly enslaved refugees
Paul Cuffee
First person to relocate African Americans from the United States to Africa
Capoeira
A martial art developed by enslaved africans that combines music an call and response singing
How did enslaved people resist in the US
Slowing work, breaking tools, stealing food, or running away
Dred Scott case
Denied black citizenship