People and Resistance
This Mende captive led the 1839 aboard the La Amistad.
Who is Joseph Cinque?
This name describes the forced Atlantic voyage endured by enslaved Africans traveling to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This type of vessel transported captive Africans across the Atlantic during the Middle Passage, often holding people in extremely crowded and unsanitary conditions below deck.
What is a slaver?
These self-emancipated people established autonomous communities, often in remote geographic areas beyond direct colonial control.
What are maroons?
This leader organized the 1739 Stono Rebellion and led participants toward Spanish Florida.
Who is Jemmy?
This system differed from many earlier forms of slavery because enslaved people and their descendants were legally treated as property for life.
What is chattel slavery?
Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution included this compromise concerning the counting of enslaved people for representation.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
A language created through the blending of multiple languages is known by this term.
What is creole?
This formerly enslaved leader became a major figure of the Haitian Revolution before being captured by Napoleon’s forces.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
The overwhelming majority of Africans transported across the Atlantic during the slave trade were brought to this broad region.
What are the Americas?
This legal principle stated that a child’s status followed that of the mother, helping make slavery hereditary.
What is partus sequitur ventrem?
Slave owners would go to these places to purchase prospective slaves.
What is a slave auction?
Born in Africa, moved to Portugal, and became the first African to arrive in North America.
Who is Juan Garrido?
This agricultural economic system created enormous demand for enslaved labor in the Americas.
What is the plantation system?
These laws restricted the movement, behavior, education, and rights of enslaved African Americans.
What are slave codes?
These religious songs combined Christianity with African musical practices and could express suffering, hope, resistance, and freedom.
What are spirituals?
This man developed a memoir to showcase the horrors of slavery after 12 years in bondage.
Who is Solomon Northup?
This country exported the most amount of slaves to the Americas.
What is Portugal?
This revolution happened in Europe and prompted the ban of slavery in Great Britain.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The development of African American culture from numerous African and American influences is an example of this cultural process.
What is cultural syncretism?