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What was most slaves' religion?
A combination of Christian beliefs and traditional African practices.
What did folktales do for the slaves?
It helped them express their dignity and humanity; some were moral fables.
How did slaves show resistance?
Some ways included: setting fire to barns, disrupting plantations, hurting the crops, or pretending they were sick.
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion? Describe event and consequence.
Virginia slave Nat Turner and his followers killed 60 white people to escape. Whites killed at least 120 innocent African Americans and increased restrictions.
What is abolition?
End to slavery.
What religious group said that slavery was an unChristian practice.
Quakers
What was the colonization movement? How did most African Americans feel?
Removing African Americans to Africa. Most AA's saw themselves as Americans and did not want to live in Africa.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison? What did he do?
A white Massachusetts who wanted immediate abolition. He published "The Liberator".
What was the Underground Railroad?
An informal network of abolitionists that helped slaves escape to freedom.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A former slave who helped many slaves escape on the Underground Railroad.
What is the meaning of these "code words": "conductor", "station", "Moses", "drinking gourd"?
guide, safe houses (barns etc.), Harriet Tubman, the big dipper
True or False. The American Anti-Slavery Society believed in any method necessary, even violence, to end slavery.
False
What is "emancipation"?
Freedom
True or False. Frederick Douglass was a slave in Georgia before he escaped to the north.
False
What was the name of Frederick Douglass's first newspaper?
The North Star
What was the Middle Passage?
The Atlantic Slave Trade
