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26. In 1644, eleven blacks, who were among the founders of this settlement in the Hudson River Valley, asked for their freedom because they had served their years of servitude. This probably was the first organized protest by blacks in America. Each received land in what is now Greenwich Village in New York City. In what colony did these events occur?
What is New Netherlands (New York)
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31. On July 24, 1651, one of the first 20 black settlers in Jamestown received 250 acres of land for importing five indentured persons. He later received more than 650 additional acres. This black family had more than 1,000 acres of land and formed one of the first permanent black communities in the colony. Name the family.
What is Anthony Johnson and his family
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36. On both large and small plantations, particularly where the work was especially hard and masters and overseers were cruel, enslaved blacks frequently resisted as best they could. What are some of the ways they resisted?
What is 1) slow or poor work performance 2) destroyed property 3) burned down barns, even when it was filled with recently harvested crop 4) left cotton or other agricultural crop in the field 5) broke tools 6) broke down fences that allowed the horses to run away 7) slave gang or working group pretended to be sick or lame
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41. To maintain a slave trading monopoly and a constant supply of enslaved African labor, the British government gave a charter to what company?
What is Royal African Company
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46. In the 1700s, this important crop was grown in South Carolina to produce a blue dye for cloth. This crop grew best on high ground and required about 25 slaves for a 50- acre plot. Fifty pounds per acre was considered a good crop, with 70 pounds per acre possible in better soils. Name this crop.
What is indigo
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27. How long would it take for a typical slave ship traveling from Gambia, the Gold Coast, Guinea, or Senegal to reach New England, the Chesapeake Bay, the Gulf of Mexico, or the West Indies?
What is 4 to 8 weeks
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32. By 1652, laws in some colonies protected the limited rights of indentured servants. For example, a servant could receive money, clothes, land, and other property when his/her service contract ended. What did colonists call the materials the servants received?
What is "freedom dues"
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37. During the early years of the slave trade, most slaves who survived the voyage from Africa to the West Indies were trained there to work and obey masters. This process could last 3-4 years. It ended when the southern colonies needed so many workers that planters imported enslaved Africans directly. What was the training period called?
What is breaking-in period
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42. On February 18, 1688, what group adopted the first formal anti-slavery resolution in American history?
What is They called slavery the “traffic of mensbody.” Quakers
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47. At this time, most of the slavers – ships that carried enslaved Africans – went from ports in Europe to Africa. The major slave trading ports after the middle of the 17th century were Bristol, Liverpool, and London in England and Nantes, France. After load- ing enslaved Africans on the Atlantic coast of Africa, ships from these ports sailed directly to the Americas, where they sold the African slaves who had survived the Atlantic crossing. What was this two-month crossing called?
What is Middle Passage
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28. In the 17th century, Europeans initially established large land-holdings in the Americas, but soon divided the land into smaller units under private ownership. These smaller parcels of land were popular in the Middle Atlantic and Southern colonies where labor intensive crops, such as tobacco and rice were grown. To perform the hard work and long hours needed to clear land, plant, tend, and harvest these crops (sometimes as much as 18-hours per day), land owners began to import European immigrants. Immigrants, however, became reluctant to do this intensive labor because they had come to America to own land, not to work for others. Convicts from Britain’s prisons were used, but there were too few of them to satisfy the tremendous demand for labor. Planters then began purchasing enslaved black people, first from the West Indies, then directly from Africa. Busy slave markets emerged in Philadelphia, Richmond, Savannah, Charleston, and New Orleans. What were these parcels of land called?
What is plantations
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33. In 1655, this enslaved African sued for her freedom and won. She argued that: 1) her father was a free man, and by law she inherited her father's condition; 2) she had been baptized, implying that a Christian could not be a enslaved for life; and 3) she had been sold to another planter even after serving nine years as an indentured servant. Name her.
What is Elizabeth Key
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38. On September 13, 1663, the first recorded major conspiracy of servants and enslaved persons in colonial America took place. A servant told authorities about the plan to escape. In what county and colony did this conspiracy occur?
What is Gloucester County, Virginia
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43. In the 1700s, plantation owners believed slaves were necessary to successfully produce many different crops. Which crops were most dependent on enslaved African labor?
What is rice, cotton, tobacco, sugar, indigo (hemp and wheat, for example, were less dependent on enslaved African labor)
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48. In the 1700s, rice agriculture in the colonies was found in a region known as the “low country.” Here enslaved Africans were heavily concentrated and the slavery system was fully established. Rice accounted for 60 percent of all exports from this region. In Charleston alone, rice exports rose from 10,000 pounds in 1698 to over 20 million pounds by 1730. Just before the American Revolution, two colonies exported more than 69 million pounds of rice each year. Name the colonies.
What is South Carolina and Georgia
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29. In 1645, the first American slave ship bound for Africa sailed from Boston. Name the ship.
What is Rainbow
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34. Between 1660 and 1810 this country and its people were the main slave carriers in the western world. Name this country.
What is England The other major carriers of slaves across the Atlantic were the French, the Dutch, the Spanish and, between 1783-1808, the Americans.
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39. In what year did Maryland pass a law that recognized slavery as legal?
What is 1664
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44. In the 1700s, this city in England was called “the Queen of English slave trading” because it supplied almost half of the ships used in the Atlantic slave trade. From about 1740 and until abolition (1807), this city was Britain's main slaving power. Thousands of slave ships sailed to Africa where they loaded enslaved people and trans- ported them to the Americas. Here, with the money made from selling the slaves, the ships then bought luxury goods such as cotton, sugar, coffee, and rum. This cargo was brought back to this English city for sale. Many merchants and investors made their fortunes from this slave trade. A visitor to this city’s center today can see the legacy of slavery in street names, carvings on buildings, and in the existence of the buildings themselves. Name the city.
What is Liverpool, England
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49. In 1700, this person was the first public official to "outrightly" denounce slavery when he published, The Story of Joseph. In this story, he compared slavery to the Old Testament story of Joseph whose brothers sold him into slavery for 20 pieces of silver. He wrote that “slavery is inhuman and that all men should be equal in the eyes of God”. He believed that “Man stealing” was an atrocious crime. He was an ex-Puritan judge of the Massachusetts Superior Court and had been involved in the Salem witch trials. He later apologized for his role in these trials. Name this public official and the colony where he lived.
What is Judge Samuel Sewall of Massachusetts
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30. What is the name of the system begun in Virginia by which planters could claim 50 acres of land for each indentured servant brought into the colony?
What is headright system
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35. On March 13, 1660, this colony passed a law that placed a tax on the sale of enslaved Africans. It is considered the first law making enslaved Africans "chattel" property (tangible property other than land or buildings). Name the colony.
What is Virginia
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40. This word describes "a string of enslaved Africans connected by a forked branch or rope" and being marched. It was used to lead enslaved Africans from the interior of the continent to the coast, adding newly captured or purchased enslaved Africans on the way. Name it.
What is coffle
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45. In the South Carolina colony, this crop was introduced in the 1690s and became the primary export crop in the early 1700s. This crop was the main source of income for farmers in the Carolinas and by the 19th century was a significant crop in Virginia and Georgia, too. It was a labor intensive crop and used a large number of enslaved blacks to do the work, including the construction of canals and ditches to maintain adequate supplies of water. Name the crop.
What is rice
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50. Although only a few black people lived in New England in 1700, this colony was the first slave-holding colony in New England. Most of the 17th century New England slave trade took place in the largest city in this region–a city that became known as the “hub of American slave trading.” In 1644 merchants from this city made the first attempt to directly import enslaved blacks from West Africa to the West Indies. Food and other products were shipped from this city to the West Indies where the goods were traded for rum. The rum was then transported to Africa to buy enslaved Africans who were brought back to the West Indies. The ships then returned home to New England with sugar and molasses. Slave traders in this city also began a profitable slave trade to other African ports, and they sold black human cargo to Virginians as early as 1678. Name the city that was called the “hub of America slave trading.”
What is Boston, Massachusetts