Origins of Enslavement
The system that forcibly transported millions of Africans to the Americas as part of a global labor network.
What was the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
The 1830 law that forced Native nations westward and disrupted Black-Native alliances.
What was the Indian Removal Act?
An abolitionist organization founded in 1833 to end slavery immediately.
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
The year the Emancipation Proclamation was issued.
When was 1863?
A free African conquistador who participated in Spanish expeditions in the Caribbean, Florida, and Mexico alongside Hernán Cortés.
Who was Juan Garrido?
Formerly enslaved abolitionist and women’s rights activist known for her “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
A community of African Americans who allied with the Seminole tribe to resist enslavement.
Who were the Black Seminoles?
Abolitionist who used journalism and oratory to challenge slavery nationwide.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
A law requiring escaped enslaved people to be returned to bondage.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Sugar plantations required massive labor forces, accelerating African enslavement.
What role did European demand for sugar play in slavery’s expansion?
A 1739 uprising in South Carolina where enslaved Africans attempted to reach Spanish Florida.
What was the Stono Rebellion?
The first legally recognized free Black settlement in what is now the United States.
What was Fort Mose?
William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist newspaper.
What was The Liberator?
The act of enslaved people freeing themselves by fleeing to Union lines during the Civil War.
What was Self-emancipation?
A Moroccan-born Muslim explorer enslaved by the Spanish who served as a guide and translator across the Southwest.
Who was Esteban de Dorantes (Estevanico)?
It served as a unifying spiritual and organizational force for rebellion.
What was Vodou’s role in the Haitian Revolution?
Conflicts in which the U.S. fought Native and Black allies to reclaim land and enslaved people
What were the Seminole Wars?
A celebration created to promote African American history, later expanded into Black History Month.
Negro History Week
An 1863 order that declared enslaved people free in Confederate-controlled states.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Early Spanish laws regulating Indigenous labor that failed to stop abuse and set the stage for African enslavement.
What were the Laws of Burgos?
An organization, founded by formerly enslaved and free Black people, focused on education, self-help, and mutual aid in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
What was the African Free School?
A massive maroon community in Brazil that resisted Portuguese rule for nearly a century.
Who were the Palmares?
The first independent Black Christian denomination in the United States, founded to resist racial discrimination in white churches.
What was the African Methodist Episcopal Church?
A traditional African skill used by enslaved and formerly enslaved people to earn income and preserve cultural practices during the Civil War era.
What was Basket weaving?