Economy of Slavery
Cotton, tabacco, indigo
What are cash crops?
Covert
What is not openly acknowledged?
American system, where an enslaved person is rendered personal property
What is chattel slavery
"Backbone" of the economy, largest single financial asset.
What is slavery?
Planned a rebellion against the slavers in Virginia, 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
Hannah and Mary Townsend
Who are the writers of the anti-slavery alphabet?
Pay homage to African and Indigenous ancestry
Who are the Black Masking Indians of Mardi Gras?
..To pay homage
What is 'to respect' or honor?
The cotton field
What does C stand for in the Anti Slavery Alphabet?
Wade in the water...
What is the coded song used by Harriet Tubman - Stick to the water and hide trail!
Grown for profit, not to eat!
What is a cash crop?
Said, "..happiest, and in some sense, the freest people in the world." Ideology on slavery.
Who is George Fitzhugh?
Saw themself as a prophet, "destined by God" to deliver people from bondage...
Who is Nat Turner?
"B" in the Anti-Slavery Alphabet. Stole his own life away.
Who is Henry "Box" Brown?
Day, just for the Black Masking Indians
What is Super Sunday?
Swampy, places established by enslaved people on the run.
What are maroon communities?
“By 1860, there were more millionaires (slaveholders all) living in the ___________________ than anywhere else in the United States..."
- David Blight
Where is the lower Mississippi Valley?
"..set fire to their homes/stole their goods..."
What is an act of resistance, property destruction?