Brazil and Jamaica
This is the name for free communities of runaway slaves.
Quilombos
This rebellion occurred in 1739 in South Carolina when an enslaved man named Jemmy, led nearly 100 enslaved African Americans, and set fire to plantations and marched toward sanctuary in Spanish Florida.
Stono Rebellion
This man was a key leader in the Haitian Revolution, skillfully navigating international negotiations, political leadership, and military planning that set up Haiti for victory and independence.
Toussaint Louverture
This slave labor system involved enslaved laborers working in groups from sunup to sundown, under the watch and discipline of an overseer, as they cultivated crops like cotton, sugar, and tobacco.
Gang system.
The first Black men to vote in Illinois did so in this town.
El Paso.
This woman was enslaved into adulthood before being freed by her owner/lover, who she went on to have 13 children with, ultimately becoming one of richest Brazilians at the time.
Chica da Silva
This rebellion broke out in 1791 as a slave rebellion and culminated in the first free, Black-led republic in the Americas in 1804.
Haitian Revolution
This man helped lead and organize the German Coast Uprising of 1811.
Charles Deslondes
This slave labor system involved enslaved people working individually until they met a daily quota, generally with less supervision. This system was used for the cultivation of crops like rice and indigo and allowed some people, like the Gullah, to maintain their language and culture.
Task system.
This northern state restricted the movement of Black people into the state.
Illinois and Ohio.
This woman led a maroon community in a years-long fight against the British government, which ultimately yielded a peace treaty and formal recognition for the maroons.
Queen Nanny
This rebellion broke out in southern Louisiana in 1811, involving up to 500 enslaved people, making it the largest slave revolt on American soil.
This man, an enslaved cook, led a successful rebellion on a ship, gaining freedom for nearly 130 people.
Madison Washington
These laws defined slavery as a legal institution, ensuring that it was a race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition. These laws also included restrictions on movement, congregation, possessing weapons, and wearing fine fabrics, among other activities.
Slave codes
This is one of the examples of skilled labor that African American slaves performed.
Painters, carpenters, tailors, musicians, healers, blacksmiths, rice cultivator, basket weaver.
This is the approximate number of enslaved people who arrived in Brazil due to the transatlantic slave trade.
Around 5 million.
This rebellion featured a mutiny aboard a slave brig, which transported enslaved people from Virginia to New Orleans. The leader seized the ship and sailed it to the Bahamas where slavery was outlawed, winning freedom for nearly 130 African Americans.
The Creole rebellion
This man offered fierce criticisms of slavery from his position in the North, encouraging enslaved people to rise up and take their freedom, reminding them that God hates slavery and wants them to be free.
Henry Highland Garnet
This is the name for the slave code that dictated the terms of enslave in French colonies.
Code Noir
This 1662 Virginia law defined the freedom or enslavement of a child based on the condition of the mother. If the mother was enslaved, so too would be the child.
Partus sequitur ventrem
These are examples of African cultural practices that were introduced by African-born people and continue into the present day in Brazil. One is a music/dance/martial arts and the other is a hybrid religious ritual/ceremony.
Capoeira and congada
This was the earliest known slave revolt in the Americas, when people from Santo Domingo were taken by the Spanish to the South Carolina-Georgia coastline where they rebelled and escaped to freedom.
San Miguel de Guadalpe Revolt of 1526.
This woman was a free Black Northerner who wrote and spoke out for freedom for Black people and equality for women.
Maria W. Stewart
This is the term for the slave code that governed life in Spanish colonies.
Código Negro
These were the only two Northern states that allowed Black men to vote prior to 1870.
Iowa and Wisconsin