Early African Presence (2.1–2.4)
Who was the first known African to arrive in the territory that became the United States?
Who is Juan Garrido?
What was the “Second Middle Passage”?
What is the forced migration of over 1 million enslaved African Americans from the Upper South to the Deep South?
Which enslaved potter is known for large storage jars and poetry inscriptions?
Who is David Drake (Dave the Potter)?
What Caribbean revolution created the first Black republic in the Americas?
What is The Haitian Revolution?
Which Black woman delivered the speech “Why Sit Here and Die?” advocating rights and moral uplift?
Who is Maria W. Stewart?
Africans like Juan Garrido and Estevanico were known as these culturally multilingual intermediaries.
What are Atlantic creoles/ladinos?
Which 1853 narrative exposed the trauma of slave auctions?
What is Solomon Northup’s “Twelve Years a Slave”?
What is one way enslaved people preserved African cultural practices?
What is quilting, music/spirituals, basket weaving, Gullah language, storytelling?
Who gave a speech praising Haiti at the 1893 World’s Fair?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Who wrote The Condition, Elevation, Emigration, and Destiny of the Colored People of the United States?
Who is Martin R. Delany?
What did slave ship diagrams like the Brookes reveal about enslavers’ priorities?
What is maximizing profit by packing as many captives as possible?
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
What is the law that a child inherits the status of the mother?
Which 1739 rebellion led to the creation of Fort Mose, the first free Black town in what is now the U.S.?
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Why was Haiti a major symbol of freedom for enslaved Africans?
It proved that enslaved people could overthrow slavery and colonialism?
Who was known as “Moses” for leading enslaved people to freedom?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What major event did Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinqué) lead in 1839?
What is the Amistad revolt?
Which laws were updated after the Stono Rebellion to restrict enslaved Africans’ movement, reading, and gathering?
What are the South Carolina Slave Codes of 1740?
Name one theme expressed in Frederick Douglass’s “My Bondage and My Freedom” (Chapter 6).
What is the importance of literacy, resistance through knowledge, psychological impact of enslavement
Which communities in the Americas formed independent, fortified societies resisting slavery?
What are Maroon communities?
What role did Black soldiers play in the Civil War?
What is they fought for the Union, challenged racist assumptions, and transformed ideas of citizenship?
Name TWO forms of resistance Africans used during the Middle Passage.
What are hunger strikes, jumping overboard, revolts, refusing food, breaking restraints?
Name TWO ways slave codes reinforced racial hierarchies.
What are restricted movement, prohibited literacy, defined Blackness as enslaveable, denied legal rights, enforced lifelong and inherited slavery?
What spiritual did enslaved people use as a message of escape and coded resistance?
What is "Steal Away to Jesus”?
Name one major diasporic connection between enslaved Africans in the U.S. and Brazil.
What are Capoeira, shared Catholic/African syncretism, Black brotherhood festivals, cultural exchanges in music/dance?
What was General Order No. 3, and why is it significant?
What is the announcement of freedom to enslaved people in Texas on June 19, 1865 — the origin of Juneteenth?