afam midterm review

black loyalists

black soldiers who served fought for the british and their freedom against American colonists

de volney

French 18th century scholar who identified Black classical Egyptian civilization as foundational to the west

Fredrick Douglass

great african american abolitionist writer and orator who escaped enslavement and convinced Lincoln to englist Black union workers

Triangular transatlantic enslavement trade

3 part trade route involving enslaved Africans, goods, and multiple continents

indentured servant

servants for 4-7 years in the American colonies

David Walker

published an uncompromising book advocating armed rebellion against slavery in 19th century

nathaniel bacon

led a multiracial coalition in armed struggle against the first british american colony in 1676

sojourner truth

great abolitionist who allegedly declared “ain’t I a woman!?” or “I am women’s rights!”

john quincy adams

6th president and passionate abolitionist who successfully represented the amistad rebels before the supreme court in 1841

james forten

rich african american colonial sail-maker who financed william loyd garisson and abolitionists 

afonso I

kongolese king shocked by mayhem, sexual assault, and enslavement by his portugese guests

francis scott key

wrote a third verse celebrating the demise of Black British troops seeking freedom in war of 1812

william lloyd garisson

great euro-american abolitionist publisher who partenered with douglass

anti-micegenation laws

laws against interracial marriage and sex

louisiana purchase

the haitain revolution triggered the massive land bargain from Napoleon to Jefferson

herodotus

greek 5th c bc “father of history” who identified classical Egyptians as a Black people

de zurara

wrote the first racial pretext to justify portugese enslavement of african people

fictive kin

non-blood related family informally adopted to recreate plantation families often destroyed by enslavement

amistad

successful sierra leone rebels of spanish slave ship led by Cinque

john brown

a white harper’s ferry leader of armed rebellion against enslavement who shook the south

white lion

first enslavement ship in colonial America brought 20 enslaved people to Port Comfort VA in 1619

Phillis Wheatley

first african american published poet impressed her enslavers and washington with her cultural mastery as she sought inclusive revolutionary freedom

5 material modes of oppression

• cultural erasure,

• day to day economic extraction

• bondage

• southern geography

• violence = maiming, killing, rape, branding

5 material modes of resistance

• cultural memory

• daily economic sabotage

• abolitionism (needs words written or spoken)

• emigrationism

• armed struggle

Modes of mental enslavement and resistance

RLSH

• religious/moral = demonize; deny divine rights

• legal = discrimination

• scientific = positive and negative eugenics

• historical = dehumanize and erase

American chattel slavery

1619-1865; - personal property, bought and sold as commodities or like cattle)

1808 importing Africans as slaves was banned and Breeding farms filled the gap