Transatlantic Slave Trade
Name of the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
Middle Passage
This individual is one of the most well known Ladinos. He was born in the kingdom of the Kongo but eventually moved to Lisbon, Portugal. As a free black man and conquistador, he participated in the colonization of Florida and other parts of North America.
Juan Garrido
Invention that led to a massive increase in the demand for enslaved labor in the South
Cotton Gin
Famous Black female poet and the first to publish a collection of poems.
Phillis Wheatley
What was the movement of enslaved people from the upper south to the lower south called?
the Second Middle Passage
These events were often the sites were enslaved people were sold.
Who wrote a slave narrative with both his anglicized and African name of Gustavus Vassa, the African?
Olaudah Equiano
System of labor whereby enslaved people worked in groups, often in fields picking cotton or cultivating another crop.
Gang system
_____________ were a form of music practiced by enslaved African Americans that blended elements of Christianity with African themes and culture.
Spirituals
The One _______ Rule was adopted by many southern states and ensured people of mixed-race ancestry were categorized as Black so they could be enslaved.
drop
Identify three conditions enslaved Africans faced on the Middle Passage that led to high mortality rates.
Overcrowdedness, diseases, poor sanitation, treatment from the crew, unclean drinking water, etc.
An enslaved African healer from Morocco. He was forced to work as an explorer and translator in Texas. He was eventually killed by indigenous groups who were resisting Spanish colonialism.
Estevanico or Esteban the Moor
System of labor whereby enslaved people often worked individually and would usually have quotas to fill.
task system
Griot traditions from West Africa became useful for African Americans in order to pass down information since many in southern colonies/states were not allowed to...
Is race real
No, it is a social construct made to justify enslavement and mistreatment of African Americans and others.
What happened to western African countries as a result of the transatlantic slave trade
They became destabilized because many people who were taken were the fighters, and because the slave trade took people who were essential to the survival of the community (healers, griots, etc.)
This individual was born a free man but was later kidnapped in his adult life and forced to work as a slave. He wrote a famous memoir that became the inspiration for the movie 12 Years a Slave.
Solomon Northup
What were the documents used as advertisements to notify people of the impending sale of enslaved people
Broadsides
How were hyms and spirituals used as a means of ressistance?
many songs had double meaning to them, and they would be used as a means of escape by the Underground Railroad
What was the response to revolts by enslaved people
Slave codes
What were the three parts of the slave trade called?
First passage, middle passage, final passage
Dred Scott
What was the legal doctrine that ensured that mixed race children would not inherit their father's property, and would continue to remain in enslavement?
partus sequitur ventrem
What role did religion play in the lives of African Amerians?
It was used as a means of social, spiritual, and political purposes
What is one way we can dispel the myth that the Africans were only cable of being agricultural workers?
Broadsides showed they had many different skills, they recreated some of the instruments they used in Western Africa.