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The forced slave trade of 12.5 million Africans to the Americas. Only 5 percent (380,000 Africans) are estimated to have survived the voyage to the United States mainly due to the harsh conditions of the slave ships.
What is the transatlantic slave trade?
Set of laws enacted by southern colonies that restricted enslaved Africans' rights, freedom, and activities. Stemmed from fear of potential slave revolts throughout the South.
What are slave codes?
The first and only successful slave rebellion inspired many other slave revolts across the Americas.
What was the Haitian Revolution?
The movement against slavery.
What was the Abolitionist movement?
One of the main reasons why black people joined in the civil war.
What is gaining freedom?
Hunger strikes, jumping overboard, and revolts.
What were the resistance methods on slave ships?
A musical genre, rooted in African traditions, emerged as a significant cultural expression among enslaved individuals in the United States.
What are Spirituals?
Breaking tools, feigning illness, staging slowdowns, committing acts of arson, and sabotage.
What is covert resistance?
A result of the rising tension between the North and Southern states due to the issue of slavery.
What was the Civil War?
What is Juneteenth?
The percentage of enslaved Africans that died during the Middle Passage.
How much is 15 percent?
A practice that classified a person with any degree of African descent as black, and considered inferior to others.
What is the one-drop rule/one-eight rule?
Free Africans who escaped slavery to establish free communities.
Who are the Maroons?
She is one of the most well-known conductors of the Underground Railroad and was responsible for the freedom of many slaves through her own personal returns to the South.
The abolitionist-inspired movement that fought for the rights of women.
What was the women's suffrage movement?
In 1839, a group of enslaved Africans aboard the __ slave ship revolted and later were freed from captivity and returned to Africa.
What is the Amistad?
The Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans, whether slaves or free, could not be citizens due to the 1820 Missouri Compromise which was unconstitutional since it violated the 5th amendment of unwanted seizure of property.
What was the Dred Scott vs Sandford case?
Thomas Jefferson suggests rebel slaves be emigrated to this country in his letter to King Rufus.
What is Sierra Leone?
One of the first African Americans to write a novel, major in the Union Army during his time in the Civil War, advocated for the emigration of black people back to Africa.
Who was Martin Delany?
The bill/amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
He was the first known African to arrive in North America when he explored present-day Florida in a Spanish expedition in 1513.
Who is Juan Garrido?
This law and saying defines the child's legal status based on the status of the mother.
What is partus sequitur ventrem/offspring follows belly?
This act required that escaped slaves should be returned to their owners even if they were in a free state.
Through this famous quote, "If there is no struggle there is no progress.", he advocates for the fight against slavery through radical resistance. One of the leading abolitionists and pioneers in the movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Fighting off attackers, using plants as abortion-inducing drugs, infanticide, and running away with their children.
What are methods of resistance for women against sexual violence?