Black History A test

Carter G Woodson

Creates black history week/month

why was BHM created

Because 2 major birthdays A ham and Fred Doug

Slavery - segregation- post segregation

1619-1865 1865- 1954 1954- on

First africans in English colonies why

20, virginia, 1619 - cash crop agriculture

Cash crop agriculture

farming growing crops for money

Led to Atlantic slave trade

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Atlantic slave trade

slaves from Africa to carrinisan

to new engalnd with mollasas

to Europe with rum, the repeat

how many slaves were in the us by 1790

700,000 1/5 pop

How many slaves in us by 1860

4,000,000 heavily concentrated

US free blacks

6-11%

Private manumission

when a slave owner dies and in there will they set there slaves free

self emancipation

when a slave frees themself

manumission

the act of a slave owner setting slaves free

emancipation

gov. setting slaves free

micheal Johnson (chruspus attackus)

first killed in bosten massacre self emancipated man

ben bannaker

freeborn, served the constuction of the us capitol,self taught. wrote almanac, first African American scientist.

Phillis whetly

born free, put into slavery, taught to read and write, first African African poet writes to Washington writes back

James forten

captrd on a ship was very smart