Terms & Concepts
This term describes a system in which people are legally treated as personal property that can be bought, sold, and inherited
What is chattel slavery?
A victim of slavery who used art to illustrate the horrors of their experience
Who is Vannak Anan Prum
This economic argument explains why the Atlantic slave trade lasted for centuries
What is the claim that slavery made economic sense?
This Liverpool slave ship became famous in 1788 when abolitionists published a diagram of its decks
What is the slave ship Brooks?
The most successful slave rebellion
What is the Haitian Revolution? (1791–1804)
The six definitions of slavery
what is
1. forced labor
2. Ownership
3. property
5. Dehumanisation
6. violence
This white abolitionist led a failed 1859 raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
Colonizers and planters often blamed this for Indigenous enslaved deaths, rather than their own violence, forced labor, and seizure of land
What is disease?
Or what is the Virgin soil epidemic?
This society expelled members who owned slaves and began the "Free Produce Movement", which boycotted goods produced by slave labor, such as sugar, cotton, coffee, and tobacco
Who are the "Religious Society of Friends" (Quakers)?
The first enslaved general of Haitian army
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
Under this legal system, a person captured in war could be enslaved
What is Roman Law
This greek person thought slavery was natural
Who is Plato?
This commodity, grown on Caribbean and Brazilian plantations, drove much of the demand for enslaved labor.
What is sugar?
This image of a kneeling, chained African man became the seal of the British anti-slavery campaign
What is the "Am I not a man and a brother" medallion?
John Brown believed that America ("the guilty land") could only be cleansed of the sin of slavery through this
What is violence?
or What is by blood?
In 1550-51, Spain held this debate over how Indigenous peoples of the Americas should be treated
What is the Valladolid debate?
This thinker argued that morality begins in sympathy, our ability to imaginatively share another person’s feelings.
Who is Adam Smith?
Name the rebellion in Virginia which united poor white indentured servants and enslaved Africans against the colony’s elite, but then forced a labor system based on race and color
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
What is Anti-Slavery International?
The name of the organisation that trains and empowers local communities
What is the Free The Slaves organisation?
The name of the organisation that investigates human trafficking
What is the ILO (International Labor Organization)?
In this man’s case, Lord Mansfield ruled that slavery had no basis in English common law, so he could not be forced out of England... but the ruling did not end slavery in the British Empire.
Who is James Somerset?
The year Great Britain banned the trade of enslaved people
What is 1807?
The name of the protocol that defines modern slavery and human trafficking?
What is the 2000 Palermo Protocol article 3(a)
The 2nd article in the new Haitian constitution, written by Dessalines
What is "Slavery is forever abolished"?