Black History

3 periods of Black History

American slavery (1619-1865), segregation (1865-1954), post-segregation (1954-infinity)

What is the significance of the year 1619 in American History

start of American slavery

cad-crop agriculture

crops that would be sold for money (tobacco, cotton, indigo)

Atlantic Slave Trade

The process that brought slaves from Africa by boat to the americans to work on plantations.

Middle Passage

transporting africans in the route between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean

Private manumation

Slave owner sets slaves free upon their death (from their will)

self manumation

a slave buys their own freedom

manumation

governmental act of freeing slaves

Michael Johnson

“Crispus Attucks” the first man to die in the Boston Massacre

Benjamin Banneker

One of the men who helped to plan Washington D.C. was also the first black American to write a scientific book

Phillis Wheatley

the first published African American poet, 1783

James Forten

fought in the American Revolution

Charter G. Woodson

he founded black history month

emancipation

slaves setting slaves free.

13 amendment

abolished slavery

cotton

“white gold”