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20 Cards in this Set
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discrimination |
unequal treatment based on a person ,race,gender,religion,place of birth,or other arbitrary charqcteristic |
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segregation |
the social separation of groups of people especially by race |
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oppression |
the felling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force |
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north and south,slave and free |
the experiences of African Americans at mid-century depended on where they lived and whether they lived in slavery or freedom |
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slaves legal status |
Douglass reminded his listeners that the law defined slaves as property,not human being. |
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rural and urban slaves |
most slaves worked on farms and plantations across the south |
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free blacks in the south |
about half of all free African American lived in the south. |
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free blacks in the north |
African Americans in the north lived freer lives |
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the economics of slavery |
as you read in chapter 19,only planters could afford to buy slaves. |
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working condition of slaves |
slaves worked on farms of various sizes |
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living conditions of slaves |
most masters viewed their slaves as they did their land |
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controlling slaves |
slavery was a system of forced labor. |
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resistance to slavery |
despite the efforts of slaveholders to crush their spirits found countless ways to resist slavery. |
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day-to-day resistance |
for most slaves,resistance took the form of quiet acts of rebellion |
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open defiance |
quiet resistance sometimes flared into open defiance when pushed too hard |
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running away |
some slaves tried to escape by running away to freedom in the north. |
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slave families and communities |
slavery made community and family |
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rebellion |
some slaves tried to escape by running away to freedom in the north |
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African American Culture |
africans arrived in the unired states speaking many languages and following many cultural tradition to survive |
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oppression |
the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force |
