1028693230 | West Africa Squadron 379 | In 1807, Britain abolished slavery, and in the next three decades the Royal Navy's squadron seized hundreds of slave ships freeing thousands of slaves | |
1028693231 | Breakers 381 | People who slaves were sent to for extreme lashings by the whip | |
1028693232 | Black Belt 381 | By 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. | |
1028693233 | Responsorial 383 | A style of preaching used by Africans in which the congregation punctuates the minister's remarks with assents and amens | |
1028693234 | Nat Turner's rebellion 384 | In 1831, Nat Turner led a bloody rebellion that slaughtered 60 Virginians, mostly women and children | |
1028693235 | Amistad 384 | In 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 | |
1028693236 | American Colonization Society 384 | Founded in 1817 by abolitionists to transport blacks back to Africa | |
1028693237 | Liberia 384 | On the fever-stricken west African coast, was established for former slaves to be shipped back to Africa. | |
1028693238 | The Liberator 386 | William Lloyd Garrison's militant anti-slavery newspaper | |
1028693239 | American Anti-Slavery Society 386 | Founded in 1833 byWilliam Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists such as Wendell Phillips to fight slavery | |
1028693240 | Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World 387 | David Walker's advocation for a bloody end to white supremacy | |
1028693241 | Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 387 | Frederick 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 | |
1028693242 | Mason-Dixon line 391 | Originally the southern boundary of colonial Pennsylvania. | |
1028693243 | Gag Resolution 391 | Required all antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate | |
1028693244 | William T. Johnson | "The barber of Natchez," a free black man (a mulatto) who owned slaves and was the master of 15 bondsmen. | |
1028693245 | Nat Turner | A visionary black preacher that led an uprising that slaughtered about 60 Virginians, most of them women and children | |
1028693246 | William Wilberforce | A member of Parliament and an evangelical Christian reformer who unchained the slaves in the West Indies | |
1028693247 | Theodore Dwight Weld | An American abolitionist inflamed against the sin of slavery by the Second Great Awakening | |
1028693248 | William Lloyd Garrison 386 | A nonresistant pacifist who favored northern secession from the south. He published the anti-slavery newspaper, "Liberator". He helped found the American Anti-Slavery Society. | |
1028693249 | Mulattoes | Free blacks in the south. Many were Emancipated children of a white planter and his black mistress | |
1028693250 | David Walker | Gave his incendiary Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World in advocation of a bloody end to white supremacy | |
1028693251 | Sojourner Truth 387 | A freed black woman in New York who fought tirelessly for black emancipation and women's rights | |
1028693252 | Martin Delany 387 | One of the few black leaders to take seriously the notion of the mass recolonization of Africa | |
1028693253 | Frederick Douglass 387 | The greatest of the black abolitionists. He escaped bondage in 1838 at age 21 and gave stunning lectures for the anti-slavery cause |
American Pageant 14th Edition Ch. 16 Key Terms And People To Know Flashcards
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