Terms and Conditions
A person owned as property by another person.
What is a slave?
This continent was the main source for slaves.
What is Africa?
Plantations were concerned with producing this category of goods.
What are crops/agricultural goods?
Abolition means to end slavery in this way.
What is legally?
They were the two geographical regions of the United States which fought in the American Civil War.
What were North and South?
Slaves were usually purchased at these events.
What are auctions?
The trade of manufactured goods from Europe, slaves from Africa, and raw materials from the Americas, is referred to by this shape.
What is a triangle?
Plantations in the Caribbean mostly grew this crop.
What is sugarcane/sugar?
This decentralized organization helped tens of thousands of slaves escape from slavery in the American South.
What is The Underground Railroad?
He was President of the United States from 1861-65.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
It means "to beat with a whip", a common punishment on plantations.
What is lashing/flogging?
The westward route, from Africa to the Americas, was known as this.
What is the "middle passage"?
These white men were tasked with ensuring that slaves kept working and did not try to rebel.
Who is an Overseer?
This British MP is considered a major influence in the British abolition movement.
Who was "William Wilberforce"?
Eleven southern states left the United States over concerns that this institution would not be allowed to expand.
What is Slavery?
This sort of slave auction involved buying a ticket and then rushing into a crowd of slaves.
What is a "grab and go"?
The migration patterns of these creatures remain permanently affected by their habit of following slave ships across the Atlantic.
What are sharks?
These part-time armies of plantation owners and whites were a major obstacle for any potential slave uprising.
What are "Militias"?
This phrase, paired with the image of a kneeling slave, formed the logo for The Society for the Abolition of Slavery.
What is "Am I Not A Man And A Brother"?
Abraham Lincoln issued this official act on January 1st, 1863, freeing slaves in rebel-controlled territory.
This derogatory animal-like term was used by slave auctioneers to refer to black men specifically.
What is a "buck"?
This Spanish island colony took in almost 4 million slaves.
Where is Cuba?
Male slaves who resisted were uniquely vulnerable to this form of punishment, in which the testicles are removed.
What is castration?
This former slave from Nigeria was a leading figure in the British abolition movement.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
They were the first "official" black regiment in the United States Army.
Who were the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment?