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Demographics of Slavery
Geography and Economics of Slavery
Family Life Under Slavery
Free African Americans
Philadelphia: 1830-1850
100
The state consistently with the most slaves.
What is Virginia?
100
Three main Cash Crops
What are tobacco, cotton, hemp
100
Marriage ritual
What is jumping the broom?
100
Caused Free African American exodus from Charleston and Richmond in the 1820's to 1830's.
What are slave revolts: Denmark Veasey and Nat Turner.
100
Three generations of agitation for abolitionism and civil rights.
Who are he Fortens: James, Harriet and Charlotte
200
The two states with the largest cotton production in 1860.
What is Mississippi and Alabama ?
200
The slave caste system. (types of slavery)
What are plantation slaves, urban slaves, industrial slaves.
200
Laws restricting domestic and public life of enslaved African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
200
Denied right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?
200
The highlight of the 1838 Anti-Abolitionist Riot.
What is the importance of the burning of newly built Pennsylvania Hall?
300
The three states of the Upper South.
What are Delaware, Maryland and Virginia.
300
The main northern product that depended on slave labor.
What are textiles?
300
Justification for corporal punishment of enslaved persons.
What are passages from the Bible and belief in how servants should be treated.
300
Laws that separated the races.
What is Jim Crow and segregation?
300
His family represented the two dominant trends of migration and self-determination.
Who was Robert Purvis? (Father migrated from Charleston, he was an abolitionist)
400
State with highest ratio of enslaved Africans vs. Free Europeans. Rice major crop in its subtropical wetlands.
What is South Carolina
400
Forced labor in iron and chemical works, factories and mills.
Who are industrial slaves.
400
Poor natal, maternity care and bad diet combined with hard labor.
What is a high infant mortality rate?
400
City with the largest free black community.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Early use of statistical analysis to solve social problems.
What is the 1837 Census of Free African Americans in Philadelphia as Conducted by the Society of Friends.
500
The decline and shift of slavery in the Upper South to the new states west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the domestic slave trade?
500
River, west of Appalachian Moutains, that divided free north from slave south.
What is the Ohio?
500
The time period before the Civil War (1820-1860)
What is the Antebellum?
500
Professions open to free African Americans.
What is barber, shopkeeper, restauranteur, tailor
500
Potato Famine
What is the cause of mass Irish immigration in 1844?