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Name 3 methods that enslaved people used to resist their enslavement.
Slowing work
Breaking tools
Stealing food
Running Away
Approximately half of the 10 million Africans who survived the Middle Passage landed in this country, where they were forced to labor in various enterprises that waxed and waned over the centuries, such as sugar plantations, gold mines, coffee plantations, cattle ranching, and the production of food and textiles for domestic consumption.
Brazil
A covert network of Black and white abolitionists who provided transportation, shelter, and other resources to help enslaved people fleeing the South resettle in free territories in the United States North, Canada, and Mexico in the nineteenth century.
The Underground Railroad
This amendment permanently abolished slavery in the United States.
13th amendment
Founded in Florida in 1565, enslaved refugees escaping Carolinas fled here. Freedom was offered to enslaved people who converted to Catholicism.
St. Augustine
These emerged throughout the African diaspora, often in remote and hidden environments beyond the purview of enslavers. They consisted of self-emancipated people and those born free in the community.
Maroon Communities
Explain how slavery in the Seminole Nation in Florida was practiced differently from the other “Civilized Tribes.”
Adopted as kin, could not be sold to whites, and rarely passed status to children
Name at least 2 ways that some African American women resisted sexual abuse and the enslavement of their children.
Fighting their attackers, using plants as abortion-inducing drugs, infanticide, and running away with their children when possible.
This event was the only uprising of enslaved people that resulted in the overturn of a colonial government
Haitian Revolution
The passage of the 1740 slave codes that imposed stricter control over enslaved Africans was an immediate result of this event
Stono Rebellion
Name at least 3 of the Five Civilized Tribes.
Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, Seminole
This leader of an 1831 rebellion believed he was divinely chosen to end slavery.
Nate Turner
This Black woman abolitionist argued for both racial equality and women’s rights in her speeches. Wrote the famous speech “Ain’t I a Woman.”
Sojourner Truth
This inspired resistance to slavery in the form of rebellions, such as those led by Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey, and the activism of abolitionists like Maria W. Stewart and Henry Highland Garnet.
Religion
The first sanctioned free Black town in what is now the United States.
Fort Mose
This Ashanti woman led “Windward” (Jamaica) Maroons during the First Maroon War, 1728-1739, by utilizing guerrilla warfare and camouflage.
Queen Nanny