The Slave Trade's Impact
This is the term for the forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
This is an example of a way enslaved people resisted their bondage.
What is running away, breaking tools, or maintaining cultural practices?
This is what enslaved people and their labor were foundational to.
What is the American economy?
This is an example of how African culture influenced religious expression in the Americas.
What are syncretic religions or spiritual practices?
This is a daily form of resistance enslaved people used to disrupt the system of slaver
What is breaking tools or working slowly?
These are the two regions in Africa that served as major departure zones for the slave trade to the United States
What are West and West-Central Africa?
This event, which occurred in 1739 in South Carolina, is an example of a violent slave revolt.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This is a crop cultivated using the task system
What is rice or indigo?
This is an example of how enslaved people maintained their linguistic practices.
What is the Gullah creole language?
These are the legislative acts passed to control enslaved people
What are slave codes?
This enslaved person wrote the poem "On Being Brought from Africa to America" in 1773.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
These are communities formed by formerly enslaved Africans.
What are Maroon communities?
This was the nature of the economic relationship between the North and South due to slavery
What is economic interdependence?
These are the rhythms used in work songs by enslaved people.
What are syncopated rhythms?
This is a form of resistance that involved enslaved people seeking freedom in Spanish Florida.
What is flight?
This is how the slave trade impacted West African societies
What is it disrupted communities and economies, and increased conflict?
This is the significance of the Gullah language.
What is it an example of enslaved people maintaining linguistic practices?
These are cities that benefited from the economy created by slavery, even if they did not play a major role in the slave trade.
What are Northern cities?
This is how enslaved people used music to pace their work.
What are work songs?
This is how the enslaved preserved elements of their culture under the task system.
What is through language and traditions due to having less oversight?
This system of labor involved enslaved laborers working in groups from sunup to sundown under the supervision of an overseer.
What is the gang system?
This is how enslaved people resisted within the task system.
What is maintaining linguistic and cultural practices due to less oversight?
This is the long-term economic effect of slavery in the U.S.
What are entrenched wealth disparities along racial lines?
This is the term for the blending of African cultural elements with those of the Americas
What is cultural syncretism?
This is an example of a literary work that depicts the experience of the Middle Passage.
What is "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano?"