Slavery in Early America
What are Europe, Africa, Americas, and West Indies?
Was created by William Lloyd Garrison and edited by Frederick Douglass in its early years
What was The Liberator?
These people were forced to work for 7 years in exchange for passage to the Americas.
Who are indentured servants?
This document was written by Thomas Jefferson and had multiple drafts.
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence and removed the Slavery Grievance from it after getting pushback from others.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
These goods were produced by enslaved people on plantations (MORE THAN ONE)
What are Indigo, Tobacco, Rum, Sugar, Rice, Cotton?
What was Freedom's Journal?
This former indentured servant started the uprising in Virginia.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This section was removed but initially blamed King George for introducing/allowing slavery in the colonies.
What is the Slavery Grievance?
This person led an uprising of indentured servants in Virginia in the late 1600s due to high taxes and dropping tobacco prices
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
Was the part of the triangular trade route where enslaved people were trafficked or moved for resources and finished goods
What is the Middle Passage?
The intellectual and philosophical movement that enslaved people cited to argue for their freedom.
What is the Enlightenment?
This was one of the causes Nathaniel Bacon mentioned in his document of complaints against the British Virginia government.
What is/was:
1. Rising taxes
2. Monopoly/control of the beaver trade
3. For withdrawing or sending the army away from defending the colonists from Native American raids
This movement influenced the American Revolution and the Declaration of Independence.
What was the Enlightenment?
This southern colony started some of the first slave laws that made harder racial divisions in the Americas.
What is Virginia?
Blocked interracial relationships, enforced racial divides, and prevented blacks from owning property in the colonies
What were slave laws?
These were ideas of the Enlightenment that enslaved people quoted to argue for their freedom.
What are natural rights/the right to life, liberty, and freedom?
This happened to the Virginia's source of labor as a direct result Bacon's Rebellion.
What is the rise of slavery?
This was the main reason the Founding Fathers created the Declaration of Independence.
What are personal and financial reasons/impacts?
This newspaper was the first African-American owned and started newspaper that aimed to disprove stereotypes about African-Americans.
What was Freedom's Journal?
Was a trade route that included the Middle Passage and moved finished goods, raw materials, and enslaved people across the Atlantic Ocean
What was the Triangular Trade Route?
African-Americans in the North used these methods to abolish slavery in the Northern colonies (recall Elizabeth Freeman, readings)
What are petitions, court cases?
These were some of the other causes of Bacon's Rebellion that historians mentioned that Nathaniel DOES NOT mention.
What are losses to the Dutch, bad weather, and rising prices and competition?
These laws impacted the Founding Fathers' income and trade abilities due to the British Government. One example was the Stamp Act.
The Coercive/Intolerable Acts.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?