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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?
Owning of human beings as property able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited, is known as.....
What is chattel slavery?
Within the discipline of African American Studies, among other fields, the concept of race is considered
What is socially constructed?
Religious songs that evolved in the context of slavery primarily in the Southern United States.
What are spirituals?
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?
The person who revolutionized cotton production by greatly speeding up the process of removing seeds from cotton fiber through the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This 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
Classified a person with any degree of African descent as part of a singular, inferior status
What is one-drop rule? (or hypodescent)
Some free and enslaved Africans familiar with Iberian culture journeyed with Europeans in their earliest explorations of the Americas; among them were the first Africans in territory that became the United States. These Africans were known as
Who are Ladinos?
Slave codes were laws designed to control the lives of enslaved people and limit their freedoms. Name two 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
A black enslaved man, had lived with his enslaver for 5 years in Illinois and Wisconsin Territory. Backed by interested abolitionists, he sued for freedom on the basis of his long residence on free soil. The ruling on the case was that He was a black & enslaved and not a citizen, so he had no rights.
Who is Dred Scott?
illegal movement of goods - drugs, weapons, humans. Forced movement, labor, sexual exploitation, etc.
What is trafficking?
Two methods of resistance to enslavement on slave ships
What is
Attempting to jump overboard
Leading revolts
Hunger strikes
African American forms of self-expression in art, music, and language (Identify at least 2 from the content)
What are quilting, pottery, creation of instruments, adapted christian hymns, and merged languages of Europe and Africa
"that which is born follows the womb" - Name & Meaning
What is Partus Sequitur Ventrem? Children would inherit the status of the mother
group of African descended people with a unique syncretic culture of African traditions and new practices, unique language and food, present day Georgia and South Carolina
Who are the Gullah people?
The organization and supervision of enslaved field hands into working teams on southern plantations.
What is the gang system?
The forced removal of Indigenous communities by the U.S. government
What is the trail of tears?
the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of its genotype with the environment. Phenotype of African Americans [harsh eyes, large noses, large genital, etc.] was used as a part of racial classification
What is phenotype?
Include the 3/5ths compromise to count enslaved people as 3/5ths of a person for the purposes of representation.
What is the US Constitution, Article 1?
One of the first Black people in the Thirteen Colonies to sue for freedom from slavery and win.
Who is Elizabeth Key?
As political texts, slave narratives aimed to do three things:
What is the
End slavery and the slave trade
Demonstrate Black humanity
Advocate for the inclusion of people of African descent in American society.
An institution with generally beneficial effects. Was often used to describe the American Slave Trade as it "benefited" those that were enslaved by providing food, shelter, and Christianity
What is a the Benign Institution ?
3 Elements of African music, found in spirituals
What is
Call and response
Refrains
Percussive sounds
Created as a response to the Stono Rebellion, a restrictive set of Slave Codes created in South Carolina to limit the rights and citizenship of African descended people, especially enslaved people. Became the basis for may US based Slave Codes.
What is the 1740 Slave Code South Carolina?