Vocabulary
Unfair treatment based on skin color
What is Racial Discrimination
The region that produced the goods they needed themselves.
What is the North
The majority of runaway slaves
What is runaway slaves aged 18-35
Enslaved people had virtually no legal rights.
What is no legal rights
A network of safe houses spanning many states, used by those escaping slavery
What is a secret network
A black or white person who wants to end slavery
What is an Abolitionist
This region's population is 1/3 of the other.
What is the South
African Americans from central and western parts of the continent were sold by African slave dealers to European traders who then transported them to North and South America
What is the Transcontinental Slave Trade
The core of slavery was the belief that Black people were not fully human but rather property. This justified the brutal treatment and lack of rights they endured.
What is Dehumanization
Navigational methods used in the absence of road signs, including stars, waterways, and terrain
What is natural landmarks
Also known as stations, these were places, such as people's houses, churches, and various other buildings, where slaves could eat, sleep, and stay during their escape
What is a Safe house
The region that depended on income from crops, especially cotton, rice, and tobacco
What is the South
For Africans that survived the journey across the Atlantic, these were the places where they were made to work (4 types of plantations)
What is coffee, cocoa, cotton and sugar plantations
Enslaved people were subjected to physical and psychological abuse, including whipping, branding, imprisonment, and sexual violence.
What is brutal treatment and violence
The paths taken by those fleeing enslavement in the South differed based on their initial location, leading to varied journeys from states like Georgia and Virginia
What is different starting points
Mostly freed African Americans who guided the fugitive slaves from safe house to safe house
What is a Conductor
This region was more educated, literate, and had a public school system
What is the North
For Africans that survived the journey across the Atlantic, these were the places where they were made to work
What is gold and silver mines, Rice fields, the construction industry, houses/ships
Slaveholders often prohibited enslaved people from learning to read or write
What is Denial of Education and Information
Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New York were examples of these areas that some escape routes led to, though Canada was seen as a more reliably safe destination.
What are free states
Forced northerners to return escaped slaves back to the south/their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave act of 1850
These were the main industries in the North and South
What is Manufacturing (north) and Agriculture (south)
The first African Americans to arrive in 1619 were not slaves at first
What is an indentured servant
Enslaved people were forced to work without pay
What is Economic Exploitation
While travel was primarily on foot, assistance sometimes came in the form of concealed spaces in wagons, boats, and trains.
What is different modes of transportation