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It was at this time that Usher was in his drop top and cruising the streets.
This term refers to "free and enslaved Africans familiar with Iberian culture; some of the first Africans in the America."
What is "ladinos?"
It was the resistance aboard this schooner in 1839 that generated public sympathy for the cause of abolition in the United States.
What is La Amistad?
It is in this Amendment of the United States Constitution that "slavery" is first mentioned.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This term refers to the names of ethnic groups, racial groups and nationalities such as Afro-American, African American and Black.
What is ethnonyms?
This singer/songwriter created the "Happy Birthday" song for Martin Luther King, Jr.
Who is Stevie Wonder?
This man is best described as an enslaved African healer from Morocco who served as an explorer and translator in Texas.
Who is Estevanico?
Stowage by Willie Cole (1997) demonstrates how visual Black artists have repurposed the what of the slave ship to process historical trauma?
What is iconography?
Slave codes defined this system as a "race-based, inheritable, lifelong condition."
What is chattel slavery?
It was this year that the United States banned international slave trading.
What is 1808?
This holiday is celebrated to commemorate the end of slavery in the United States.
What is "Juneteenth?"
Forty-eight percent of all Africans who were brought to the United States directly from Africa landed in this city, which was the center of United States slave trading.
What is Charleston, South Carolina?
The lower South (South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas) was dominated by this labor system in which enslaved African Americans were especially valuable as commodities.
What is the slave-cotton system?
This Supreme Court Case decided that African Americans, enslaved or free, were not and could never become citizens of the United States in 1857.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This organization was founded by white leaders seeking to exile the growing free Black population to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
Name one of the seven guiding principles of Kwanzaa.
What is:
Umoja (unity)
Ujima (collective work and responsibility)
Imani (Faith)
Nia (purpose)
Kujichagulia (self-determination)
Ujamaa (cooperative economics)
Kuumba (creativity)
These political texts were designed to end slavery and the slave trade by demonstrating Black humanity and advocate for the inclusion of Black folks in American society.
What are "slave narratives?"
The coiled features of African American basket-weaving in the Carolina lowcountry of early America resemble the current basket making techniques found in these two African countries. Name at least one.
What is Senegal and Angola?
This seventeenth century law defined a child's legal status based on the status of their mother.
What is Partus sequitur ventrem?
One month following the passage of slave codes in South Carolina, British colonial forces seize and destroy this settlement, which was the first sanctioned free Black town.
What is Fort Mose?
What is BET or Black Entertainment Television?
The increase in monetary incentives from the slave trade led to more violence to enslave neighboring societies, and domestic wars between kingdoms were intensified by firearms received through trade with Europeans. This is an example of how the Transatlantic Slave Trade did what to West African societies?
What is destabilize/destabilization?
This creole language is an example of how enslaved people maintained their linguistic practices under the task-system in the Carolina lowcountry.
What is the Gullah Creole Language?
American blues, originating in Louisiana, contains this same musical system from the Senegambia region.
What is the fodet?
In this war, African American freedom seekers fought alongside the Indigenous nation in resistance to relocation from 1835 to 1842.
What is the Second Seminole War?