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The Atlantic Slave Trade |
where slaves were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean and sold to people in the America’s where they were forced to work |
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In many southern states |
it was illegal to teach a slave to read & write |
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The Middle Passage was |
the trip for slaves across the ocean to the Americas |
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Abolitionists |
were people who believed that all slavery was wrong and did what they could to abolish slavery |
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Runaway slave who was famous for helping over 300 slaves escape in the Underground Railroad was |
Harriet Tubman |
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The Underground Railroad was |
created to help slaves escape from the South to the North. |
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The Mason-Dixon line was |
the imaginary border that separated the Northern “Free” States from the Southern “Slave” States |
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In 1865 |
slavery was outlawed in the United States and its territories |
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The Missouri Compromise was |
created to allow Missouri to enter the Union as a Slave State and Maine to enter as a Free State |
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Abraham Lincoln was |
the president who passed the law that abolished slavery |
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Slavery |
existed for thousands of years |
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Slave ships were made to hold up to |
600 slaves |
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The voyage across the Atlantic Ocean lasted from |
21 to 90 days, depending on the weather |
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Slaves were wedged horizontally and chained to low-lying platforms that were |
stacked in tiers in the cargo holds of the slave ships |
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The Underground Railroad was not an actual railroad |
but a passage to the North. Underground actually means that the passage was a secret. |
