Vocabulary
Occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
This young girl who wrote The Bars Fights.
Who is Lucy Terry?
Written by African Americans about the fight against slavery and misconceptions about Black intelligence.
What is Freedom's Journal?
Showing prejudice or bias toward others, especially based on ethnicity, gender, age, or disability.
What is discriminatory?
He was the first African-American poet to be published in America.
Who is Jupiter Hammon?
Essay that proposed the solution to slavery is God's authority.
What is An Essay on Slavery?
An early photographic process.
What is a daguerreotype?
Many historians consider them to be the founders of African-American literature.
Who are Phillis Wheatley and Olaudah Equiano?
A raid by Native Americans in Deerfield, Massachusetts inspired Lucy Terry to write this poem.
What is The Bars Fight?