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+integral to african american culture
+gave enslaved peoples a sense of community
+Bluestone river= in Mecklenberg VA: first AA church |
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| Religious society of friends |
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+Also known as Quakers
+one of the first groups to be openly anti-slavery
+December 1775, quakers contributed to abolition of international slave trade. Placed a ban on bringing slaves to America |
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| Pennslyvannia Abolition society |
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+State with strongest anti-slavery sentiment
+Large quaker influence
+First meeting: April 1775
+Led by: anthony benzet, john woolman
+Ben Franklin = member
+inspired other pro-abolition societies |
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+Located in Northern Africa
+Islamic
+Entirely encompassed by desert
+First contact 1445 when Portuguese set up trading center on Arguin Island |
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| Started in 15th century when the Beni Hassan Arabs invaded and conquered Mauritania |
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Located in southern africa
currently extrememly impoverished |
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| Trading center for the Shona peoples. Great civilization and had contact with europeans. FLourished between 12th and 15th centuries |
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Crowned in 1431
Council of Bassel disposed of him as a heretic |
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Part of oposition to Pope Eugenius IV
declared slavery Magnum Scleus |
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| Pope Pius II declared slavery "Magnum Scleus" or an Enormous Crime. first time the catholic church spoke out against slavery |
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| Transatlantic Slave Trade |
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| Triangle Trade-slaves to americas,sugar/tobacco/cotton to Europe, textiles/rum/manufactured goods to Africa |
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| Enslaved Africans' journey across the atlantic. They were crammed into boats, disease and death rates were high. |
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| Occupies Haiti and Dominican Republic. First place Christopher Columbus "discovered" as the New World |
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| 1502, he becomes the first identifiable merchant to sell a slave from africa into the New World |
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disagreed with Catholic church
nailed 95 thesis to the church door
translated the bible from latin to german |
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| Dutch West Indian Company |
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| Founded in 1621 the company was granted a monopoly of the trade with the Americas and Africa and the Atlantic regions between them by the Netherlands |
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| Fur trading post on the Hudson erected in 1624 by Dutch West Indian company. Future site of Albany |
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| 17th century Dutch territory. It encompasses present day New York, New Jersey, Deleware, Connecticut,with small outposts of Pennslyvania and Rhode Island. Its capital was New Amsterdam located at southern tip of manhattan |
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| English Royal African Company |
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| Led by James, Duke of York. Enslavement company. Granted a monopoly of english slave trade by its charter in 1660 |
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| Englishman bought 2 areas of land in Jamestown VA. wanted to explore native american territories, and overthrew William Berkely to do so...except he died of a fever not long after and his rebellion failed. |
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| America's first colony sponsored by the Virginia Company of London |
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| Transportation Act/Piracy Act of 1718 |
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Standardized the process in which criminals were brought to the new world
*Merchants were paid to bring the criminals to the Americas, and the criminals were treated like slaves and chained to ships. |
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| Post Transportation Act Criminal Life |
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| Criminals were sold as indentured servants. Their sentence was anywhere from 7 to 14 years. once they had enough money, they could pay for thier freedom |
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| Freed Indentured Servants |
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| around 90% of them stayed in maryland and virginia,only a few went back to england. After this ended after the American Revolution, england sent its criminals to Australia |
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| Given to George Washington's grandfather in 1674,named after Edward Vernon, George inhereted the property at 11 years old after the death of his brother. |
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| George Washington's slaves |
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| At 11 he recieved 10 slaves. When his plantation grew from 2000 acres to 8000, he had 315 slaves (3/4ths women) that ran his land. by the time he was 21 the plantation was split into 5 farms. |
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| Washington's slaves continued |
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| Slaves lived on the farm they worked on. 2 families shared 1 cabin. In washington's will it said all slaves would be freed upon his wife's death. |
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| started with 20 coed slaves, met outside a store near the Stono river, Killed 2 shopkeepers and stole guns and powder |
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| After killing the shopkeepers, they killed 7 or 8 families. This rebellion grew into a march of about 60-100 slaves, some of which were taken by force. They killed 25 people in all. |
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| Stono Rebellion Repercussions |
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| When slave owners caught up with the revolt, a battle broke out. Almost 20 owners died and 40 slaves. almost all slaves were recaptured and put back into slavery (except one who was on the run for 3 years) |
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| Stono Rebellion Repercussions 2 |
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| carolina law makers made harsher slave laws. Slaves could not grow thier own food, assemble in groups or learn to read |
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| went to harvard, after a failed business attempt he went into politics full time. After Intolerable Acts were passed he became a prominent leader of the American Revolution |
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| Started in Lexington, was american colonies struggle to distance themselves from British control |
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Born in Gambia, Africa. Slave child taught to write by master and mistress. First african american poet to get published in america. also well versed in latin
her popularity helped her buy her own freedom |
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| American Revolutionary pamphlet written by Thomas Paine |
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| First European country to exploit africans (late 15th century) |
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| Pedro Alonso Nino (El Negro) |
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| Highly educated, one of the first black europeans to travel to new world with Chris Columbus. First explorer to reach trinidad. Helped establish permanent spanish/portuguese power in slave trade. |
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| Portuguese exlporer that opened up a successfull trade rout from Europe, Africa and India. He helped Portugal gain economic power over slaves as well as other goods. |
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| Well educated Portuguese explorer who was the first to discover Brazil and claim it in the name of portugal |
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| new world trade post on Hispaniola. Here slaves were seperated for work either in south america, north america, or in santo domingo. |
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| one of the most powerful african nations. first started trading precious metals and spices for slaves (war captives/convicts/indebted farmers). Portugal ended up manipulating this country into giving them full access. They then started enslaving common citizens |
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| Portuguese started trading with congo when they realized congo was wealthy, and had a strong centralized government. Congo traded precious metals and spices for domestic slaves |
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embraced and encouraged islam
turned Timbuktu into one of the worlds greatest learning centers |
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| african society of skilled canoeists in the 9th century that lived and worked on the Niger river. Embraced islam around 1000 ad. one of thier towns Sarnah contained markets |
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| powerful songhai leader. songhai was able to conquer Timbuktu and Jenni because they were skilled canoeists. Songhai saw its peak reign with Askia Muhammed Toure |
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had a significant slave trade.
Collapsed with the division of the empire after Askia's death in 1536 |
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| islamic sharia law provides no basis for objecting to slavery. in spite of its endorsment of slavery, many africans believed in Islam which was introduced around 650 AD |
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| Askia Muhammed Toure incorporated islam into legal system of Songhai. Islam was also prevalent in the leadership of empires that existed in the area of present day Chad and in North Africa. |
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| Portuguese settlement along the Western coast of Africa built in 1482. Initially designed to service the Portuguese gold trade, the fortress was later converted to a slave trading post and was eventually brought under the control of the Dutch in 1637. |
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| Island off the coast of africa. Originally exploited for portuguese sugar growth |
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| Island off the coast of africa. Originally exploited for portuguese sugar growth. Ended up being an important transit site for enslaved africans |
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| commanded The Nina on chris columbus's journey to americas |
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| Thomas Jefferson (back ground) |
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| 3rd president of US, leader of republican party, drafted Declaration of Independence |
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| Thomas Jefferson (slavery) |
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| affair with sally hemmings (african american slave) in 2000, dna testing was done and proved jefferson was the father of her children |
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| Wrote 2/3rds of the Federalist Papers. Officer in New Yorks anti slavery office |
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He originally thought blacks were inferior to whites, but he questioned his beliefs when he visited school where young Africans were being taught.
In 1785 he became the president of the Pennsylvania abolition society. He eventually freed his own two slaves. |
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| Revolutionary Lawyer/ 2nd president of US. one of 5 to make final draft of declaration of independence |
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