People to Know!
Slavery in the Americas
Resistance and Revolts
Culture, Identity, and Community
It's the Law!
100
This African-born conquistador traveled to the Americas with Spanish explorers and is recognized as the first recorded African to arrive in North America.
Who is Juan Garrido?
100
What does "partus sequitur ventrem" mean?
It literally means "Given through the womb" and means that the condition of slavery follows the condition of the mother.
100
Name one common form of everyday (covert) resistance used by enslaved people.
What is working slowly or deliberately, feigning illness, sabotaging tools or equipment, misplacing items, learning to read and write in secret, or sustaining and creating culture?
100
This is where maroon communities were located
What are remote areas such as mountains, swamps, or dense forests in places like the Caribbean, South America, and the Southeastern United States
100
This Supreme Court decision declared that African Americans, both enslaved and free, could never be U.S. citizens. Chief Justice Taney further ruled that enslaved people were property under the Fifth Amendment, making any law depriving slave owners of their property unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
This former enslaved woman became a Union spy and led a raid along the Combahee River, freeing over 700 enslaved people. She is also known as the Moses of her people.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This term means the third part of the slave journey. It's the internal slave trade saw the forced relocation of enslaved people from the Upper South to newly established cotton plantations in the Deep South, transforming the economies of both regions.
What is the Second Middle Passage? or the Domestic Slave Trade
200
Spirituals often contained hidden messages or themes meant to communicate resistance or a desire for freedom. Name ONE common theme or coded message found in many spirituals.
What is "Drinking Gourd" (the Big Dipper, which pointed toward the North), "Pharaoh" (symbolizing the oppressive system), "moses" referred to people who might lead them out of freedom, "Chariot" (symbolizing deliverance or freedom), or "Deliverance" (the hope of freedom or the Promised Land - northern states, Canada, etc.)?
200
Latinized Black people who were born or raised in Spain, Portugal or these nations' Atlantic or American colonies and who spoke fluent Spanish or Portuguese. They were often valuable during the Spanish conquering of the new world. What is the name?
Who are Ladinos?
200
Slave codes were laws designed to control the lives of enslaved people and limit their freedoms. Name one common restriction imposed by these codes.
What is:
- prohibition on learning to read and write
- restrictions on movement without a pass
-bans on gathering in groups
- curfews
-prohibitions on owning weapons
-a requirement for permission to marry
- severe punishments for attempting escape
- restrictions on practicing certain religions
300
Who said it? & Name of speech
"Fellow-citizens, pardon me, allow me to ask, why am I called upon to speak here to-day? What have I, or those I represent, to do with your national independence? Are the great principles of political freedom and of natural justice, embodied in that Declaration of Independence, extended to us? and am I, therefore, called upon to bring our humble offering to the national altar, and to confess the benefits and express devout gratitude for the blessings resulting from your independence to us? "
Who is Frederick Douglass? What is What, To The Slave, Is The Fourth Of July?
300
…Let me give you a word of the philosophy of reform. The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions have been born of earnest struggle…If there is no struggle there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters.
This struggle may be a moral one, or it may be a physical one, and it may be both moral and physical, but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will…In the light of these ideas, Negroes will be hunted at the North, and held and flogged at the South so long as they submit to those devilish outrages, and make no resistance, either moral or physical…
Source: “West India Emancipation” by Frederick Douglass, 1857
What is the term given to those who agreed with Frederick Douglass’ argument?
What is an anti-emigrationist?
300
What is Fort Mose?
300
The message of this piece.
What is to represent the various African communities that would have traveled in a slave ship?
300
Which trial led to a Supreme Court ruling in which the passengers were ruled to be free men and able to go home?
The Amistad Trial
400
This man led the Haitian Revolution. In the early 2000s, artist Jacob Lawrence created this series about the Haitian Revolution entitled The Life of ____________
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
400
List two effects of the American Revolution on slavery
Increases awareness of inequality
Becomes a turning point for racial myths and beliefs about the founding era
Slaves left suffering in their condition
Discussion of gradual emancipation
400
National meetings called annually through 1835 and occasionally thereafter, black leaders built networks. They discussed and debated the state of their communities and what they could do to improve them. They framed resolutions and undertook projects that sought to elevate the status of free blacks and to promote abolitionism.
What is the Black convention movement or Colored Conventions?
400
What are two examples of African American and Indigenous relations?
Some indigenous groups enslaved Africans, some groups like the Seminoles treated the maroons around them like kin, some indigenous nations adopted slave codes and created slave patrols
400
The Emancipation Proclamation, issued by President Lincoln in 1863, declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states. However, it did not apply to...? & Explain why.
Who are enslaved people in the border states or Union-controlled areas? The Proclamation only targeted states in rebellion, so it did not apply to loyal border states like Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and Delaware. Lincoln wanted to keep these states from joining the Confederacy.
500
I am an abolitionist who famously "walked away" from slavery and pleaded the cause of women's rights along with rights for Black people. Who am I? And what famous speech did I give (or did I)?
Sojourner Truth
"Ain't I a Woman?"
500
Name at least one reason this society was criticized.
What is the American Colonization Society was created by white people to send free Black people back to Africa - did not want a large free Black population, took focus from abolitionism, effects of colonization on the indigenous groups, etc.
500
Name one Black woman who played a significant role in anti-slavery or Black freedom efforts and describe ONE her contributions to the movement. (Can't be Harriet Tubman)
Phillis Wheatley
Maria Stewart
Harriet Jacobs
Sojourner Truth
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
Mary Ann Shadd
500
What is the historical context and the purpose of this poster?
Historical Context: After the Emancipation Proclamation was enacted on January 1, 1863, Black leaders including Frederick Douglass swiftly moved to recruit African Americans as soldiers
Purpose: To urge free African Americans to enlist highlighting the fight for freedom and equality and the importance of African Americans defending their own liberation.
500
Name at least one way in which the US Constitution protected slavery.
13th Amendment-- allowing involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime, which led to practices like convict leasing and disproportionately affected African Americans
3/5 Compromise allows enslaved people to count toward southern population
Doesn't address slavery directly/didn't forbid it
Limits any restriction until after 1808.