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The traditional African medium of storytelling and memory keeping that African Americans used as well
Quilt-making
The organization founded by white leaders seeking to exile the growing free Black population to Africa after the United States banned international slave trade
The American Colonization Society
The only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in overturning a colonial enslaving government
The Haitian Revolution
Groups of self emancipated and freeborn people that emerged throughout the African diaspora where African based languages and cultural practices blended and flourished
Maroon communities
The laws enacted in 1793 and 1850 as a result of the high number of African-Americans, who fled enslavement
The Fugitive Slave Acts
Instrument constructed from gourds that African Americans created from West African influence
Rattles
The oldest continuously occupied settlement of African-American and European origin in the US that enslaved refugees fled to to seek asylum in Spanish Florida
St. Augustine
The European colony that became a Black republic, free of slavery (Haiti)
France's Saint-Domingue
The country where half of the 10 million Africans who survived the Middle Passage landed
Brazil
Activist who raised money for the abolitionist cause and participated in activities such as speaking tours, including recruiting Black soldiers to the Union Army
Sojourner Truth
The term for common language that describes communication across languages used by Africans, who knew both African and European languages
Lingua franca
The first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States
Fort Mose
The territory that Napoleon was prompted to sell to the United States due to the cost France incurred while fighting Haitians
The Louisiana Territory
The indigenous group that provided refuge for some African-American freedom seekers in Florida, who they fought alongside of
the Seminoles
The number of Black men who were formally enslaved, but were liberated during the Civil War by Union troops and the Emancipation Proclamation who served in the Civil War
150,000
Creole language that combines elements from West African and European languages
Gullah
The rebellion in 1739 in which an enslaved man from the Angola region led nearly 100 enslaved African-Americans from South Carolina to Spanish Florida, burning plantations along the way
Stono Rebellion
The acts passed as a result of in increased anxieties about the spread of slave revolts
The Alien and Sedition Acts
The type of citizenship that anti-emigrationalists believed they had
Birthright citizenship
Amendment that secured the permanent abolition of slavery in the United States, except as a punishment for a crime
The 13th Amendment
The songs enslaved people saying to articulate their hardships and their hopes
Spirituals
The religion that would give enslaved people freedom if they converted to it in Spanish Florida
Catholicism
The 1811 revolt inspired by the Haitian revolution in which 500 enslaved people marched toward New Orleans and were violently suppressed
The German Coast Uprising/Louisiana Revolt
The first Black woman to publish a political manifesto and one of the first American women to give a public address
Maria W. Stewart
The day that marks the end of slavery in the last state of rebellion, Texas, that occurs on June 19
Juneteenth