Africa Before the Arrival
These are the 6 regions of Africa.
What is N. Africa, S. Africa, E. Africa, W. Africa, Cent. Africa, & The Diaspora?
These 3 European countries started the slave trade.
Who is Great Britain, Portugal, and Spain?
This cash crop was the backbone of Southern economy.
What is Cotton?
This popular drum is the heartbeat of Africa.
What is the Djembe?
Negro Spirituals led to the creation of these two music genres.
What is Jazz and Blues?
This ancient African civilization is nicknamed "Black Land".
Where is Egypt?
This part of the journey to the Americas was grueling and deadly. Some slaves were killed to make profit, some ended their own lives.
What is the Middle Passage?
The majority of the enslaved worked this type of grueling labor.
What are field hands?
Unfortunately, these slave remedies could not be written, so slaves decided to...
What is passed down Orally?
This Underground Railroad conductor was also known as "Black Moses".
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Once known as the "Greatest Library in the Ancient World". Now, it's just a pile of rocks.
What is The Great Library of Alexandria?
40% of all slaves were transported to sugar plantations in this South American country.
Where is Brazil?
This Virginia town welcomed its first cargo of slaves in 1609.
Where is Jamestown, Virginia?
These three cultures makes up African American culture.
What is Native American, European, and African culture?
The Fugitive Slave Act was passed almost 15 years before the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is 1850?
He was a Malian king that had pockets full of gold.
Who is Mansa Musa?
What is year 1807?
These cruel laws forbid the enslaved from owning guns, marrying a white person, and learning how to read and write.
What are Slave Codes?
The language Gullah Geechie originated in this Southern state.
Where is South Carolina?
These backwater communities primarily consisted of escaped slaves and rogue Native Americans.
What are Maroon communities?
Askumites built these long and tall structures to commemorate the dead. Some Washingtonians call it "The Monument".
What are Obelisks?
In this process of social conditioning slaves were stripped of their native identities as they embarked a new way of life in the 'New World'.
What is Seasoning?
Known as the meeting place for Congress, this grand building isn't so nice when we remember it was built by slaves.
What is the U.S. Capitol?
Negro Spirituals uplifted sorrow spirits, but also served a greater purpose.
What are coded messages?
Helping a slave escape is dangerous work. Violators could face...
What is 6 months imprisonment or $1,000 fine?