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| 15719788467 | West Africa Squadron | (established 1808) British Royal Navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. It intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans. | 0 | |
| 15719788468 | Breakers | Slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally "break" the souls of strong-willed slaves. | 1 | |
| 15719788469 | Black belt | Region of the Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves. This emerged in the nineteenth century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west. | 2 | |
| 15719788470 | Responsorial | Call and response style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions. Practiced by African slaves in the South. | 3 | |
| 15719788471 | Nat Turner's Rebellion | (1831) Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white southern of further uprisings. | 4 | |
| 15719788472 | Amistad | (1839) Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard. The ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial. Former president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the Supreme Court, securing their eventual release. | 5 | |
| 15719788473 | American Colonization Society | Reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to Africa, the organization established Liberia, a West Africans settlement intended as haven for emancipated slaves. | 6 | |
| 15719788474 | Liberia | West African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, fifteen thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s. | 7 | |
| 15719788475 | The Liberator | (1831-1865) Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd Garrison, who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves. | 8 | |
| 15719788476 | American Anti-Slavery Society | (1833-1870) Abolitionist society founded by William Lloyd Garrison, who advocated immediate abolition of slavery, By 1838, the organization had more than 250,000 members across 1,350 chapters. | 9 | |
| 15719788477 | Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World | (1829) Incendiary abolitionist tract advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, a southern born free black. | 10 | |
| 15719788478 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass | (1845) Vivid autobiography of the escaped slave and renowned abolitionist Frederick Douglass. | 11 | |
| 15719788479 | Mason-Dixon line | Originally drawn by surveyors to resolve the boundaries between Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and Virginia in the 1760s, it came to symbolize the North-South divide over slavery. | 12 | |
| 15719788480 | Gag Resolution | Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals. Driven through the House by proslavery southerners, this resolution passed every year for eight years and was eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams. | 13 | |
| 15719788481 | William T. Johnson | Free black from New Orleans who owned fifteen slaves and was very harsh on them. He was known as the "barber of Natchez". | 14 | |
| 15719788482 | Nat Turner | Black slave and prophet who led a revolt in Virginia in 1831 which killed 60 people (mostly women and children). This scared the Southerners because it was the first really violent action of the slaves. As a result, slave codes were made more strict | 15 | |
| 15719788483 | William Wilberforce | British politician who championed the abolition of the slave trade, and later slavery itself. An evangelical Christian, he delivered rousing speeches on the floor of the Commons, galvanizing public support for the abolitionist cause. | 16 | |
| 15719788484 | Theodore Dwight Weld | In 1832, he went to the Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati, Ohio. He and some of his comrades were kicked out for their actions of anti-slavery. The young men were known as the "Lane Rebels." They helped lead and continue the preaching of anti-slavery ideas. Wrote "American Slavery As It Is". | 17 | |
| 15719788485 | William Lloyd Garrison | Abolitionist who published "The Liberator" in Boston and helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society. He favored Northern secession and renounced politics. | 18 | |
| 15719788486 | David Walker | He was a black abolitionist who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves. He wrote the Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World. It called for a bloody end to white supremacy. He believed that the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt. | 19 | |
| 15719788487 | Sojourner Truth | A freed slave who lived in America during the late 1800's. From her home in New York she waged a constant battle for the abolition of slavery. She was also a prominent figure in the fight for women's rights. | 20 | |
| 15719788488 | Martin Delany | Black abolitionist and advocate of relocating freed blacks to Africa, even visiting West Africa's Niger Valley in search of a suitable location in 1859. | 21 | |
| 15719788489 | Frederick Douglass | Former slave who was an abolitionist and was gifted with eloquent speech and self-educated. In 1838 he was "discovered" as a great abolitionist to give antislavery speeches. He swayed many people to see that slavery was wrong by publishing Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass which depicted slavery as being cruel. He also looked for ways politically to end slavery. | 22 |
