APUSH 4.12 - African Americans in the Early Republic

Where did most enslaved people lived on what forced labor camps dedicated to the large-scale production of cash crops?

Plantations

By 1850, more than half of the enslaved people in the US grew what crop for export to northern and British textile mills?

Cotton

Although Congress abolished the international slave trade in 1808, which trade was big business throughout the south?

Interstate Slave Trade

What (both Christian and African) sustained black communities in the South?

Religion

What, against the institution of slavery, were subtle?

Everyday Resistance

In 1822, what free black carpenter and church leader in Charleston, South Carolina, allegedly masterminded a far reaching conspiracy in which free and enslaved black people would seize weapons and murder the white inhabitants of the city?

Denmark Vesey

In 1832, who led a major uprising of enslaved people in southwestern Virginia that resulted in the deaths of 57 white people?

Nat Turner

Richard Allen founded what separate black Christian denomination in Philadelphia?

African Methodist Church

What free black Boston clothing merchant wrote an influential pamphlet denouncing slavery and racial discrimination?

David Walker

Several enslaved people who escaped became leading orators and writers for the abolition cause such as who?

Frederick Douglass