Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Approximately how many enslaved Africans were forcibly transported during the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade?
What is 12.5 million?
Circle all key features of slave narratives:
– Written by formerly enslaved Africans
– Foundational to American writing
– Demonstrated Black humanity
– Could be fiction or nonfiction
What are all except “could be fiction or nonfiction”? Slave narratives were nonfiction.
True or False: The word “slave” appears in the original Constitution before the amendments.
What is false?
What is Harriet Tubman most famous for?
What is
She led approximately 80 enslaved African Americans to freedom.
After fleeing enslavement, she returned to the South 19 times to help free others.
She sang spirituals to alert enslaved people of plans to leave.
True or False: Laws against sexual abuse did not apply to enslaved African American women.
What is true?
What U.S. city and state, known as the “Ellis Island of African Americans,” did about 48 percent of Africans enter through?
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
What is most notable about formerly enslaved poet Phillis Wheatley?
What is that she was the first African American to publish a book of poetry?
What does Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution establish regarding African Americans?
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Explain how the expansion of slavery in the U.S. South affected relationships between Black and Indigenous people.
What is it complicated relationships through conflict, alliance, and pressures of expansion?
True or False: The distinct experiences of enslaved African American women helped advance both abolition and early feminism.
What is true?
Name the top five enslaving nations involved in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What are Portugal, Great Britain, France, Spain, and the Netherlands?
What made Phillis Wheatley extraordinary as a writer during her time?
– She was enslaved
– She was a woman
– She still published poetry
What does Article IV, Section 2 establish regarding people “held to service”?
What is that people “held to service“ cannot escape their “service”
David Walker’s Appeal and Henry Highland Garnet both pushed for what?
What is active Black resistance and liberation?
What happened to many enslaved families due to cotton expansion and slave trading?
What is forced separation and relocation?
Give the approximate dates of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade.
What are roughly the 1500s through the 1800s?
What is notable about Olaudah Equiano?
He was the first African American to publish a Slave Narrative.
Chattel slavery is defined by which characteristics?
– Race-based
– Inherited
– Lifelong condition
– Paid labor
What are race-based, inherited, and lifelong?
Who was the most photographed man of the 19th century?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
How did slavery shape the daily lives of enslaved women?
What is exploitation, sexual abuse, and carrying both fieldwork and family burdens?
What major effect did the growth of the cotton industry have on enslaved African American families?
What is increased separation of families due to forced movement and sale?
Approximately how many African Americans reached freedom through the Underground Railroad in the 19th century?
What is about 300,000
What acts did Congress pass because people were fleeing through the Underground Railroad?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the significance of photos of formerly enslaved African Americans?
What is that they showed their humanity, dignity, and strength to the world?
Why did Paul Laurence Dunbar write “The Colored Soldiers”?
What is
To counter narratives that minimized the participation of the African Americans in the war.
To counter narratives that ignored what African Americans had at stake in the war as it related to Black liberty and citizenship.
To honor African American soldiers.