Transatlantic Slaveries
A majority of people captive aboard slave vessels who did not survive the Middle Passage did so due to the following
What is disease?
These autonomous communities occupied by formerly enslaved people who successfully escaped enslavement throughout the new world endure as symbol of resistance in the historical memory of diasporic Afro-descendants in the Americas.
What are maroons/maroon communities?
While slavery denied the possibility of kinship for enslaved people in the slave holding territories, African Americans could often form free communities and stable kin networks in this part of the United States
What are the Northern states of the US?
Women aboard the slave vessel often took advantage of their access to mobility. We now know that women aided this landmark insurrection by passing messages and weapons to other captives on the ship
What is the Amistad Rebellion?
Seized and controlled by various European empires over the course of the transatlantic slave trade, Elmina Castle and Cape Coast Castle were both important trading centers for the transatlantic slave trade located on the coast of this modern West African country.
What is Ghana?
In 1783, hopeful on the promise of freedom in Spanish Florida, enslaved peoples in South Carolina developed a plan to escape south. As news spread about the rebellion, US militia quickly traveled to capture those who escaped during this rebellion which resulted in increased surveillance and decreased mobility of enslaved peoples in the United States.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Isolated from whites and most often under the supervision of Black drivers, enslaved communities in the South Carolina Lowcountry developed this creole language to communicate with one another
What is Gullah?
Regarded as a key development in the expansion of American slavery, this law passed in one of the 13 colonies established hereditary slavery based on the mother's status, meaning children born to enslaved mothers would also be born enslaved
What is the 1662 Law of Virginia?
Distinguished from mixed-race castas and ladinos, enslaved Africans who had newly arrived to the Spanish colonies were often referred to as ...
What are bozales?
Regarded as one of the most radical Atlantic Revolutions, in 1804, this insurrection led predominantly by enslaved Africans in the French in the colony of Santo-Domingue on the island of Hispanola successfully declared their freedom. Their first action as a free republic? The abolition of slavery.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This founding document declared that the United States of America would withdraw from the transatlantic slave trade in 1808.
What is the US Constitution?
Although little is known about the life of this woman who found herself in a condition of enslavement when arriving to a settlement in Virginia in 1691 aboard a pirated slave vessel, her christianized name would be recalled by scholars of transatlantic slavery as one of the first women who endured the horrors of American slavery.
Who is Angela?
In this system of enslavement practiced by the British and eventually the United States, African slaves were considered the property of their owners, similar to livestock or furniture
What is chattel slavery?
Born in Sierra Leon and trafficked to the Americas to endure slavery, this historical figure led a successful rebellion aboard a Cuban ship in 1839 that eventually resulted in his freedom and return to West Africa.
Who is Joseph Cinqué?
From 1720 until the 1780s, most of the slaves imported from Africa ended up in this region's British North American colonies.
What are the Southern colonies?
In 1783, a West African born women sued in a Massachusetts court to demand a portion of her former master's estate, this suit is now regarded as one of the earliest demands for reparations made by persons of Afro-descent in the United States.
What is Belinda's Petition?
Different from manumission, enslaved people in New Netherlands could be granted this status which meant that those who protected the colony from external forces would be granted freedom while their children remained enslaved.
What is half-freedom
As English colonists declared independence from the British during the American Revolutionary War, enslaved people fought on both sides of war in hopes of securing their freedom. This decree published in 1775 declared that all enslaved persons who joined the British cause would be freed upon the end of the war.
What is Lord Dunmore's Proclamation?
While enslaved people in the Southern colonies performed cultivative labor, enslaved people in the mid-Atlantic colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware) most often performed this type of labor.
What is domestic labor?
Born as an enslaved person "owned" by the George Washington Family, this woman successfully evaded being returned to Virginia after escaping the President's mansion in Philadelphia during the persecution of the fugitive slave law.
Who is Ona Judge?