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American Pageant 14th Edition Ch. 16 Key Terms And People To Know Flashcards

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1028693230West Africa Squadron 379In 1807, Britain abolished slavery, and in the next three decades the Royal Navy's squadron seized hundreds of slave ships freeing thousands of slaves
1028693231Breakers 381People who slaves were sent to for extreme lashings by the whip
1028693232Black Belt 381By 1860, most slaves were concentrated in this region of the Deep South stretching from South Carolina and Georgia to the southwest states. This was the southern frontier and very harsh conditions for slaves.
1028693233Responsorial 383A style of preaching used by Africans in which the congregation punctuates the minister's remarks with assents and amens
1028693234Nat Turner's rebellion 384In 1831, Nat Turner led a bloody rebellion that slaughtered 60 Virginians, mostly women and children
1028693235Amistad 384In 1839, the Spanish ship that was seized by enslaved Africans and attempted to return to Africa. They were captured and imprisoned for two years until John Quincy Adams persuaded the US Supreme Court to free them in 1841
1028693236American Colonization Society 384Founded in 1817 by abolitionists to transport blacks back to Africa
1028693237Liberia 384On the fever-stricken west African coast, was established for former slaves to be shipped back to Africa.
1028693238The Liberator 386William Lloyd Garrison's militant anti-slavery newspaper
1028693239American Anti-Slavery Society 386Founded in 1833 byWilliam Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips to fight slavery
1028693240Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World 387David Walker's advocation for a bloody end to white supremacy
1028693241Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 387Frederick Douglass's classic autobiography that depicted his remarkable origins as the son of a black slave woman and a white father, his struggle to read and write, and his eventual escape to the North
1028693242Mason-Dixon line 391Originally the southern boundary of colonial Pennsylvania.
1028693243Gag Resolution 391Required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate
1028693244William T. Johnson"The barber of Natchez," a free black man (a mulatto) who owned slaves and was the master of 15 bondsmen.
1028693245Nat TurnerA visionary black preacher that led an uprising that slaughtered about 60 Virginians, most of them women and children
1028693246William WilberforceA member of Parliament and an evangelical Christian reformer who unchained the slaves in the West Indies
1028693247Theodore Dwight WeldAn American abolitionist inflamed against the sin of slavery by the Second Great Awakening
1028693248William Lloyd Garrison 386A nonresistant pacifist who favored northern secession from the south. He published the anti-slavery newspaper, "Liberator". He helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society.
1028693249MulattoesFree blacks in the south. Many were Emancipated children of a white planter and his black mistress
1028693250David WalkerGave his incendiary Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in advocation of a bloody end to white supremacy
1028693251Sojourner Truth 387A freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights
1028693252Martin Delany 387One of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of the mass recolonization of Africa
1028693253Frederick Douglass 387The greatest of the black abolitionists. He escaped bondage in 1838 at age 21 and gave stunning lectures for the anti-slavery cause

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