Resistance
What word means any action taken to oppose slavery?
What is resistance?
This woman served as a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What was the Underground Railroad?
A secret network that helped enslaved people escape.
What is a slave narrative?
A first-person account of life in slavery.
Laws passed after slavery that limited Black freedom were called what?
What are the Black Codes?
This type of resistance included work slowdowns, sabotage, and pretending to be ill.
What is everyday resistance?
This man used speeches and slave narratives to argue against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A person who guided escapees along the route was called a what?
What is a conductor?
Who wrote a famous 1845 slave narrative that helped grow abolitionism?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
These laws controlled where freedpeople could live and work.
What are the Black Codes?
Using speeches and writing to persuade others that slavery is wrong is called this.
What is moral suasion?
This abolitionist led an armed raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
A person who provided a safe house was known as a what?
What is a station master?
Why were slave narratives powerful tools against slavery?
They exposed the brutality and humanized enslaved people.
The main goal of Black Codes was to do what?
Maintain white control and restrict Black freedom.
The use of violence or force to resist slavery is known as what?
What is militancy?
This abolition strategy demanded the immediate end of slavery.
What is radical abolition?
Why was secrecy essential to the Underground Railroad?
Escape was illegal and participants faced violence or death.
This author described being kidnapped from Africa in 1789.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
How did Black Codes affect labor?
Forced freedpeople into unfair contracts and limited job choices.
Name one way gender influenced resistance among enslaved people.
Examples: women poisoning masters, protecting children, passing messages; men joining revolts, running away.
Compare one difference between Douglass’s and Brown’s strategies.
Douglass used moral suasion; Brown used militancy/violence.
Name two risks faced by people involved in the Underground Railroad.
Arrest, fines, execution, re-enslavement.
Name one emotional or political impact slave narratives had on readers.
Built sympathy, changed opinions, increased abolition support.
Explain one way freedom was limited after slavery ended.
Voting restrictions, labor contracts, curfews, vagrancy laws.