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| A strategy of masking their sexuality and creating an asexual exterior. This happened because of the way that black women were treated during slavery ( rape, sexual assault, etc.) Protects their sanctity and inner aspects of their lives. |
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| Politics of Respectability |
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| A form of resistance adopted by blacks to the negative stigmas and caricatures about their morality. A way to redefine ourselves outside of the prevailing racial discourses. |
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| What was the early dilemma that scholars like Evelyn Brooks and Higginbotham called attention to ? |
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| The fact that women and their struggles were overlooked in history. |
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| what is the "taboo" in terms of things that most scholars avoid when writing about blacks? |
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| The division in the household between black men and black women. |
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| What are the three lingering issues that need further exploration according to Michelle Mitchell ? |
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| Power dynamics between black men and women, sexual identitites, and more comparative work/research . |
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| Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies. Farmers, planters, and shopkeepers in the colonies found it very difficult to hire free workers, primarily because it was so easy for potential workers to set up their own farms. During the indenture period the servants were not paid wages, but were provided with food, accommodation, clothing and training. The indenture document specified how many years the servant would be required to work, after which they would be free. |
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| What type of labor did men and women perform ? |
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| Agriculture, domestic, textile industry, weaving , and cotton. Men were also becoming skilled workers as well. |
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| Virginia enacts a law of hereditary slavery meaning that a child born to an enslaved mother inherits her slave status. This led to the want/need to impregnate more black women just so they can have more slave children. |
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| How do enslaved men and women try to preserve familial bonds ? |
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| Black people built bonds with people that were not even related to , but still treated them as if they were family. Slaves also went to visit other plantations to see their family. |
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| What avenues did black people have for obtaining freedom? How did they live while the system of racial slavery persisted ? |
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| They bought themselves out of slavery and had to work for the money earned. they also kept their culture values through song, music dance. On Sundays they didn't have to work , and they meet with other enslaved people and dance and sing together. |
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| What are the 3 characteristics that they believe define black women's history in the u.s. ? |
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| Accomplishment, Cultural Expression , and resistance to oppression . |
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| What do we learn about the plight of black women and girls ? |
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| The younger girls who were pretty were kept to be sold for greater profit later, because they knew they would grow up to be fine , and men would want to pay a lot for them because of their sexual attraction. |
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| What are the two forms of labor ? How do they differ ? |
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| Task and Gang labor. Task labor is how fast they could get it done ( 105 sq. feet normally ) . Gang labor divided groups on the ability to complete a particular job. |
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| Who was John Punch ? & why was his verdict so significant ? |
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The first enslaved black man in 1644.
All 3 decided to escape together, but was caught and punished but they only made the black man ( John Punch) a serving enslavement for life. Then other slave-owners wanted to seek this punishment for their slaves. This set up the foundation for race-based slavery . This has race-based implications. |
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| What is the 1693 Presentment ? |
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| It represents a consolidation of slave owners powers. Limits their mobility , and gives anyone the power to commit the blacks to jail if they caught them late at night. Public punishments sent messages to the public, society, and blacks. |
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| Created seperate negro courts , and their cases were expedited just so that they could go back and work in the fields. They sent all blacks to these courts regardless if they were a slave or not. They could not have any lawyers ,and could not testify against whites. |
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| What was significant about all of the acts between 1700-1706 ? |
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| All of these acts kept creating lines between black slaves and white indentured servants . They used this to kind of treat what it means to be black and what it means to be a slave as interchangeable. |
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| What were the 1705-1706 rape laws ? |
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| The 1705 law was the law about the punishemnet of black men and white men . White men would be whipped and imprisoned for 7 years of they raped a white woman, and black men were killed if they raped a white woman . It attempted rape black men would be castrated , and the white man would be whipped and branded. This is important because it shows how they valued a white woman over a black woman. |
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| what was the 1682 act to protect servants ? ( in which didn't apply to blacks at all 0 |
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| white women had to be in "good moral standing" to even have their case for rape heard. |
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| What did the acts of 1725- 1726 ? |
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| Aimed at free blacks ; preamble associates all blacks w/ crime ; prohibitd interracial marriage ; hires out children of free blacks. |
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| How did pregancy impact women's ability to work ? what were the risks? |
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| ginning was bad for them and could cause hernias and cause them to miscarriage. they couldn't work as hard when they were pregnant. |
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| How much cotton were workers expected to pick ? |
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| What kinds of labor abuses did the slaves suffer at the hands of overseers ? |
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| The overseers would be overworking the slaves. |
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| How does the American Revolution imapct the black cause for freedom ? |
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| It gave blacks the opportunity to fight for their freedom. |
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| she was the black woman who passed as a white man and acted as a master to purchase her husband. |
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| The black man that purchased slaves before his wife's and daughter's freedom . |
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| What was the PA Gradual Abolition Act of 1780 ? |
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| It was gradual emacipation , and if you were born after this act , you would be indentured until age 24 for women , and age 28 for men . |
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| being freed voluntarily by your owner. |
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| what date was the last person freed after the Gradual Act ? |
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| How long did the "gradual emacipation" took about ? |
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| What were freed black women being criticized for ? |
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| Acting too "uppity" and "acting white". How dare you be classy like you white people? |
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| What was the Stono Rebellion ? |
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| blacks stole guns ,and killed whites, bombed their homes and assaulted them. But they were taken down by a white militia. This caused the whites to start cracking down on blacks. |
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| Who was Gabriel Prosser 1800 ? |
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| He was a black slave who could read and was a blacksmith. He planned a rebellion , but the information for it got leaked and him and 25 followers were held captive and hanged in punishment. This led to state legislatures passing restrictions on free blacks to prohibit their education and assembly. |
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| Nat Turner & Cherry Turner ( 1861 )? |
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| they organized to kill hundreds of whites . Nat felt like god called him to kill the whites. He was killed. But Cherry and the kids were tortured. |
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| How did abolitionists use the jezebel rhetoric to their advantage ? |
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| they declared slave owners immoral for letting "Hoes" into their household. |
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| what were the three cities featured in chapter two of the Hine and Thompson book ? |
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| New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Charleston. |
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| who was Rebecca Cox Jackson and how did gender impact what she believed was her calling ? |
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| She was a female minister and wanted to spread the word. She traveled |
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| In what ways did the culture of Charleston differ from that of Philadelphia ? |
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| In charleston there were so many blacks outnumbering the whites. Charleston was more plantation based. |
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| What was a "prime-rice hand" and how were they valued ? |
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| they were 26 years old, young , and priced at $1,000 . |
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| What was the "Negro Act" ? |
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| Made it illegal to buy any goods from slaves. The white people wanted to re-gain control. |
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| What was the racial composition of new orleans ? |
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| Senegambians people, mullatoes , alot of intermixing |
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| unofficial marriage ; began when the female was between 12 and 15 years old. |
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| A wealthy , voddo queen , eevryone looked up to her, she was an enetreprenuer too. 1/4th black. |
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| How did whites try to justify their treatment of black women ? |
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| they tried to say they were helping them out , by "showing them how to be mothers, cook, clean, act, etc. " . |
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| What are the main forms of resistance thatenslaved women especially employed ? |
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| Fighting back , reading/writing (spreading that knowledge ) . |
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| killed her own daughter rather than allowing her child to be returned to slavery. |
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| Fugitive Slave Law ( 1793 & 1850 ) |
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| The fugitive slave laws were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory |
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| 1842 , Supreme court, Priggs v. Pennsylvania |
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| Prigg v. Pennsylvania, 41 U.S. 539 (1842), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the court held that the Federal Fugitive Slave Act precluded a Pennsylvania state law that gave procedural protections to suspected escaped slaves, and overturned the conviction of Edward Prigg as a result. |
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| She was 29 when she escaped, and she also helped to free her parents too. She led a march in the war . She had to petition just to be repaid for what she did. All they paid her was $20 a month til death through her ex-husband. She also served as a spy during the civil war. |
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| How did black women aid the war effort ? |
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| they were nurses, spies, did laundry, used codes, and some were recruiters. |
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| What steps did blacks take to liberate themselves ? |
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| many enlisted to serve in war efforts; slaves would rebel by not wanting to work, and some literally libertaed themselves. |
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| After the war , what were the 3 primary goals of both black men and women ? What 3 aims did black women specifically have ? |
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| Make a living , reunite their families, and try to live and enjoy life as far from white oppression as possible. Black women 3 aims: Didn't wanna work at night, no supervision of white man, and wanted their womanhood to be respected. |
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| Granted these residents popular sovereignty and the states got to decide whther they want to be slave states or not. |
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| pro-slavery men burned down a free town in Kansas |
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| The case was based on the fact that although he and his wife Harriet Scott were slaves, they had lived with his master Dr. John Emerson in states and territories where slavery was illegal according to both state laws and the Northwest Ordinance of 1787, including Illinois and Minnesota (which was then part of the Wisconsin Territory). |
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| white abolitionist who led the raid at harper's Ferry in 1859 .Harper's ferry was a raid that john brown used to initiate a slave uprising throughout . And he protested the anti-slavery convention in 1840 london for not seating women. |
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