Names
He wrote The Interesting Narrative (published in London in 1789) describing his journey through the Middle Passage.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The 1739 Stono Rebellion took place in this colony.
What is South Carolina?
This Latin legal principle declared that the status of a child followed that of the mother.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
This leg of the triangle trade carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
“Prime” slaves were considered young, healthy, and fit for field labor.
True
This enslaved woman from Bermuda wrote the first narrative published by a Black woman in Britain.
Who is Mary Prince?
This colony’s 1705 slave code became a model for others in British North America.
What is Virginia?
The 1775 proclamation by this British governor promised freedom to enslaved people who joined the Loyalist side.
What is Dunmore’s Proclamation?
A holding pen or enclosure where enslaved Africans were kept before shipment.
What is a barracoon?
The “task system” was common on rice plantations and gave enslaved workers more autonomy than the gang system.
True
This African-born man enslaved in New England was considered a "refuse slave." He later bought his freedom and dictated his life story in 1798.
Who is Venture Smith?
This New England colony adopted the “Body of Liberties” in 1641, which was the first legal recognition of slavery in English America.
What is Massachusetts?
This French colonial law, first issued in 1685, regulated slavery, religion, and marriage.
What is the Code Noir?
This form of semi-free labor bound Europeans to work for a set term, often 4–7 years.
What is indentured servitude?
The American Revolution immediately ended slavery in all thirteen colonies.
False
She became the first published African American poet in the colonies.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Slavery in this French colony gave rise to the only successful large-scale slave revolt in history.
What is Saint-Domingue (Haiti)?
Legal cases like Elizabeth Freeman’s in Massachusetts challenged slavery in court; these cases were known as this.
What are freedom suits?
An enslaved person who escaped and formed independent communities in the Americas was known as this.
What is a maroon?
Most of the founding fathers were supporters of immediate emancipation rather than gradual emancipation.
False
Leader of the 1791 revolt that grew into the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This part of North America was governed under the Code Noir.
What is (French) Louisiana?
This English law code, first written in the Caribbean, served as a model for South Carolina’s slave laws.
What is the Barbadian Slave Code?
This arrangement in French and Spanish colonies allowed free women of color to enter into contractual unions with white men.
What is plaçage?
Abolition and manumission mean exactly the same thing.
False (abolition = ending slavery as a system; manumission = freeing an individual)