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From 1630-1670, traded slaves from west Africa to New York and Connecticut, Delaware, and New Jersey. (It was the major slave trading system of the time). |
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An example in early Virginia of a black man who emerged from servitude to become a tobacco planter himself. Arrived in the colony in 1621 and then he became free in 1651 had an estate of 250 acres and was a master of several servants himself, some of them were white. |
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| African American slaves used their African heritage skills to do the work in the South. They masters found that they would work longer and better in groups compared to solitary. |
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Before 1720 the beginning process of making the new Africans more like creoles. Also a means of preparing many slaves for resale to north American planters, who preferred season slaves over unbroken ones who came directly from Africa. |
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| Sky father, God of Thunder and Lightning. This God was the Center of religion of the Oye people of West Africa. A popular deity in the Caribbean during the slave trade used by Africans to help the devotees of Sango gain self-control. |
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- The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as the Quakers, was founded in England in the 17th century as a Christian religious denomination by people who were dissatisfied with the existing denominations and sects of Christianity.
- Were known to have been some of the first people to free their slaves.
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| method of labor where slaves were assigned to specific tasks and after these tasks were complete they were free to work on other tasks or do what they pleased without the white man’s supervision. This was used in the Carolinas during the cultivation of rice in the 1600s (1620-1670) Rice did not require much attention so this method was effective, it also encouraged absenteeism- the plantation owners were not always around. Because there was a black majority in these areas, the slaves were able to preserve more of their African American heritage than the slaves in the more northern colonies. |
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During Early 14th century, Kush fell to the neighboring Noba people, who in turn fell to the nearby kingdom of Axum, whose warriors destroyed Meroe. Located in what is today Ethiopia, and emerged as a nation during the first century BCE as Semitic people from the Arabian Peninsula, influenced by Hebrew culture, and settled among a local black population. |
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After the defeat of Ghana the Sudanese peoples competed for political and economic power. This contest ended in 1235 when the Mandinka, under their legendary leader Sundiata, defeated the Sosso at the battle of Kirina. Sundiata went on to forge the Empire of Mali. They were socially, politically, and economically similar to that of Ghana. |
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(1312-1337) made himself and Mali famous when in 1324 he undertook a pilgrimage across Africa to the Islamic holy city of Mecca Arabia. |
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| By the time it absorbed Kush during the fourth century CE, Axum had become the first Christian state in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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- A British surgeon on four travels in slave ships between 1780 and 1787 before meeting the anti-slavery campaigner, Thomas Clarkson and becoming a member of the Anti-Slavery Society (ASS).
- Sailed to Sierra Leone with his wife Anna Maria, with the intent of reorganizing the failed settlement of freed slaves in Freetown.
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| between the 15th and 19th centuries, most of the slaves were shipped from West Africa and Central Africa and taken to the New World. Some of these slaves were captured by the European slave traders through raids and kidnapping, but most were obtained through coastal trading with Africans. |
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| Black people represented a small part of a labor force composed mainly of white indentured servants. From the 1620s to the 1670s, black and white people worked in the tobacco fields togther, lived together. As members of an oppressed working class, they were all unfree indentured servants. |
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| a labourer under contract to work for an employer for a specific amount of time. |
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- It required all legal documents, permits, commercial contracts, newspapers, wills, pamphlets, and playing cards in the American colonies to carry a tax stamp.
- The Act was enacted in order to pay for the maintaining of the military presence protecting the colonies. However, riots erupted as the colonists protested.
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| born free in Maryland in 1731, died in 1806, son of mixed-race mother and African father, inherited farm near Baltimore from white grandmother, attended integrated school, had steady income to study literature and science, “decidedly negro”, interested in mechanics and gained fame as mathematician and astronomer, First black civilian employees of the U.S government when he became a member of the survey commission, had assimilated white culture, publish almanac and sent it to Jefferson to counteract his statement that blacks were intellectually inferior to whites. |
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| Black poet and the first published Black writer in America, a poem appearing in print in 1760. He is considered one of the founders of African American Literature. He was a slave his whole life, but allowed to tend school. |
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| · a Scottish moral philosopher and a pioneer of political economy |
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| Where the parents become free, but their kids will not be free. |
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| 1730s-1740s and refers to several periods of dramatic religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. It was a revolution of religious thought. It was also the turning point of African American Religion. |
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one of the most imp. black religious leaders of the 19th century, was a slave in Delaware, converted to Methodism, born in
1760, first bishop of the AME church, founded the first church for black people in Philadelphia |
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| Revolutionary War Veteran and abolitionist in the late eighteenth century, a former slave, a skilled craftsman and entrepreneur, an abolitionist, and an advocate of black education. He is best remembered as the founder of the African Lodge of North America, known as the Prince Hall Masons. |
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| was an African American abolitionist and clergyman. He had purchased his own freedom, and that of his wife by 1778. He was the first African American priest in the Episcopal Church. Jones was also part of the first group of African Americans to petition the U.S. Congress. |
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| A Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon in 1676. He was an English aristocrat who migrated to Virginia. The immediate cause of his rebellion was a disagreement between him and the colony’s royal governor William Berkley over Indian policy. Also appealed to Black slaves to join rebellion, which indicated that poor white and black people still had a chance to unite against the master class. |
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| Extensive enterprise, which lasted for more than three centuries, brought millions of Africans three thousand miles across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. It was the largest forced migration in history. By the eighteenth century, the voyage across the ocean in European ships called “slavers.” |
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| in 1770 died in the Boston Massacre. He took the lead in accosting the soldiers and became a martyr to the patriot cause. |
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| one of the most prominent people of African heritage involved in the British debate for the abolition of the slave trade. He wrote an autobiography that depicted the horrors of slavery and helped influence British lawmakers to abolish the slave trade in 1807 |
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- A preacher in the Church of England and one of the leaders of the Methodist movement.
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| Northwest Ordinance of 1787 |
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- Was the creation of the Northwest Territory as the first organized territory of the United States out of the region south of the Great Lakes, north and west of the Ohio River, and east of the Mississippi River.
- Free territory for freed slaves
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- an Englishman, Anglican clergyman and former slave-ship captain
- Abolitionist
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- He was a General in the Army and sat in the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer from 1713 to 1715 and from 1727 to 1752. His younger brother, the third Earl, was involved in the Jacobite rising of 1745 and was tried for high treason in 1746. Lord Dunmore pleaded guilty but received a pardon from King George II.
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- was an Louisiana Creole practitioner of Voudou renowned in New Orleans. She was born free in New Orleans.
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- it outlawed the use of the Port of Boston (by setting up a barricade/blockade) for "landing and discharging, loading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise" until such time as restitution was made to the King's treasury (for customs duty lost) and to the East India Company for damages suffered. In other words, it closed Boston Port to all ships, no matter what business the ship had.
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| political movement of the 18th and 19th century which sought to make slavery illegal, particularly in the United States and British West Indies. Beginning during the Enlightenment in Europe and the United States, the movement attracted many followers and had significant political results. It succeeded in making slavery illegal in |
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Born by 1748 Enslaved tavern worker Pioneering Baptist preacher Founder of an 18th-century all-black Baptist church Visionary leader and pastor Became a free man and landowner Died about 1807 |
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Missionary to Goose Creek, South Carolina Reported that many masters cannot be persuaded to view Blacks and Indians as other than beasts, and treat them as such. |
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