Section 3
These are groups devoted to the end of slavery.
What are antislavery societies?
The Gullah people still speak creole in South Carolina and this state.
What is Georgia?
A Protestant leader from Philadelphia who was active in the fight against slavery.
Who is Anthony Benezet?
Slavery was banned in Massachusetts in this year.
What is 1783?
This is the process of being freed from bondage.
What is emancipation?
They formed the first antislavery societies.
Who are Quakers?
Most slaves were Christians by late in this century.
What are the 1700s?
A signer of the Declaration of Independence and antislavery writer.
Who is Benjamin Rush?
Delegates from the states met for the Constitutional Convention in this year.
What is 1787?
Virginia and this state made new laws that made emancipating slaves easier for slaveholders.
What is North Carolina?
This prohibited anyone in the territory to own slaves or other involuntary servants.
What is the Northwest Ordinance?
The earliest black church was started in 1773 in this town.
What is Silver Bluff, SC?
He was a black Boston shipper who became a sailor during the Revolution.
Who is Paul Cuffe?
The states finally ratified, or approved, the Constitution in this year.
What is 1790?
He wanted to bring free blacks back to Africa to live.
Who is Paul Cuffe?
The name for African Americans who were not slaves.
Who are free blacks?
This church grew out of a church founded by Richard Allen.
What is AME?
The first African American to have works of poetry published.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
Boston was the only major American city that contained an entirely free black population in this year.
What is 1790?
He allowed black students to meet in his home to study with a white teacher.
Who is Primus Hall?
This stated that every five slaves in a state would be counted as three people.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
He was the first black doctor in the United States.
Who is James Durham?
He was chosen to help survey the location of the nation's new capital, Washington, D.C.
Who is Benjamin Banneker?
The earliest black church was started in this year.
What is 1773?
She was the first known African American poet.
Who is Lucy Terry?