Precolonial Africa
The archaeological sites in Ancient Africa discussed this semester
What is Dar-Tchitt and Jenne Jeno?
The (dis)organized practices of slowing down work, burning, escape, plant allyship, and using abolitionist principles to be free
What is rebellion and revolution?
The year a law was passed that made African women and their labor 'tithable'
What is 1643?
The two major slave trades and time periods studied in this class
What are the Indian Ocean slave trade 6th -20th c and the Atlantic Ocean slave trade 14th -19th c?
Blank occured from 1861 -1865
What is the Civil War?
son of nzinga knuwu and while ruling as the Mani Kongo established diplomatic ties with Portugal in 1492.
Who is nzinga mbemba? (Afonso I) of Kongo?
fundamental members of African societies, who were poets and oral historians
What are griots?
laws passed in each of the former Confederate states following the Civil War which only applied to black people. these codes prevented marriage, contract a debt, own property, to sue or be sued or serve on juries
what are the Black codes?
The types of sources explaining how centralized governments and trade routes operated in West Africa
What are griots, African oral traditions islamic scholars and texts?
The only successful slave rebellion in history
What is the Haitian Revolution?
Act that organized new territory west of the Appalachian Mountains and north of the Ohio River, prohibited slaveholders from bring in slaves into the Northwest Territory while permitting slaveholders who already lived in the area to maintain their human property
What is the northwest ordinance of 1787
The colonial nations and powers in chattel slave trades
What are Britain, Spain, Dutch, Belgium, Germany, Portugese, the Vatican, Catholic Church & Ottoman Empire?
The location of the military action sparking the civil war
Lived from 1825-1911 and born free in Baltimore. During the 1850s they were an antislavery speaker and published antislavery poetry such as in a Two-Story White House in north
Who is Frances Ellen Watkins Harper?
a linguistic creation between people who speak different different languages that follows its own grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.
what is pidgin?
a Confederate club for veterans who adopted secret rituals and oaths started in Pulaski, Tenessee in 1866
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
The Bakongo Kingdom shared a common culture with these eight adjoining region
Who arethe people from the adjoining regions, “Congos”and “Angolas”, Mbembe, Mbanda, Nsundi, Mpangu, Mbata, Mbamba or Loango
method of commentary and resistance during colonial america and the civil war
The legal rationale and basis for that believes slave positions are inherited through the mother thus normalizing enslaved and black folks never be included in the built world as is.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
Estimated amount of people trafficked through both slave trades
What is over 200 million people?
Lincoln's stance on citizenship
What is not for Black people?
An active abolitionist who by the 1840s hadestablished California's first Black newspaper Mirror of the Times, and in 1851 led a protest against a CA state constitution that denied black men the right to vote.
Who is Mifflin W. Gibbs?
a file of slaves chained together typical of the domestic slave trade
what is a coffle?
the 1857 US Supreme Court case that ruled against Missouri slave Dred Scott by declaring that black people were not citizens, that they possessed no constitutional rights and were considered to be property.
What is the Dred Scott v Sanford Decision?
The two groups which shared a cosmology and matrilineal organization
Who are the Kongos and Angolas?
the speeches declaring Independence Day and Human Rights are a paradox and unsupportive for Black people everywhere.
What is the fourth of July to the Slave and I am a Woman's Rights?
the name of the codes which criminalized Black folks mobility, presence, absence, education, resistance, and self-expression
What are the Black Codes?
the area of the ship Falconbridge examined the medical and living conditions of enslaved people
The movement to retreat from political office and invest in building a network of resources and relationships by and for Black people
What is the Reconstruction Era?
In 1856 they were one of many enslaved Black women who fled from Kentucky to Ohio yet were recaptured. Rather than see their children live under slavery they killed one of their three children. Their story was the basis for Toni Morrison's Beloved
Who is Margaret Garner?
a tactic which appeals to slaveholders and others to support immediate emancipation on the basis of Christian principles
what is moral suasion?
author of Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the world inspired by the Baltimore Alliance which preached immediatism, and that all Black folks secure their libert by any means necessary
Who is David Walker?
This kingdom had an unwritten constitution with a system of political checks and balances
What is the Oyo Kingdom 17th c?
The plants and people who practiced applying plant knowledge to contend with rape and sexual terror
What are the cotton root, peacock flower, and Mary Gaffney?
The legal vocabulary used to maintain Black folks position in the world
What are unfree, property, persons held in service & partus sequitur ventrem?
Explain the ecological, political, psychological, spiritual, and temporal structure and meaning of the Door of no return
What is (listening for elaborate answer)
were called _____, and were initially opposed by Southerners who clung tightly to white supremacy and the Confederacy. But between 1869 and 1871, their home rule platform, asserting that good government was run by locals—meaningwhite Democrats, rather than black or white Republicans—helped end Reconstruction in three important states: Tennessee, Virginia, and Georgia.
What are the Redeemers or new Departure Democrats?
Author of one of the most famous speeches condemning global treatment of Black women, limits of 'reason' and man called , "I am a woman's rights".
Who is Sojourner Truth?
the term used for the often violent process by which white conservative democrats regained political control of a southern state from Black and white republicans during Reconstruction
what is redemption?
the loose arrangement between national democrats and republicans which settled the presidential dispute of 1876 by allowing Hayes -R to become president while allowing Democrats to complete redemption by taking control of Louisiana, Florida, and South Carolina
What is the Compromise of 1877?