Ch 4 American Yawp

Olaudah Equiano

An enslaved African who described the horrors of the Middle Passage and later worked to end slavery.

Middle Passage

The forced journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.

Transatlantic slave trade

The forced transportation and sale of Africans across the Atlantic.

Robert Horne

An Englishman who advertised Carolina as a place with land, wealth, and religious freedom.

Carolina settlement advertisement

A 1666 document encouraging English settlers to move to Carolina for economic opportunities.

Thomas Newe

An English colonist whose letter described disease, conflict with Native Americans, and hardship in Carolina.

Life in colonial Virginia

Some settlers faced hunger, difficult labor, and harsh living conditions.

Salem witch trials

Trials in Massachusetts during the 1690s in which people were accused of witchcraft.

Sarah Carrier

A young girl whose testimony accused her mother, Martha Carrier, of witchcraft.

Ann Putnam

A woman who later admitted that her accusations during the Salem witch trials were wrong.

Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address

A traditional prayer expressing gratitude for the natural world and its gifts.

Rose Davis

A woman sentenced to lifelong slavery in 1715 despite her mother's status as a white indentured servant.

Hereditary slavery

A system in which a person's legal status as enslaved could be passed from parent to child.

British colonial economy

An economy that produced goods such as tobacco, grain, timber, and sugar.

Colonial competition

European empires competed with one another and Native Americans for control of land and trade.