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14 Cards in this Set
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New Negroes
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An individual planter purchased a small number of these newly arrived Africans. They were often depressed, and slaves that had been on the plantations longer had to help them with their new life.
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Enlightenment
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movement of ideas of deism. These ideas encouraged people to study the world around them, to think for themselves, and to find a natural order. They had meetings to discuss these ideas. Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson were part of this movement.
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Country-born/creole slaves
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Africans who were born into slavery in the colonies.
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Middle Passage
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Route across the Atlantic used to transport slaves from Africa to the New World.
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Great Awakening
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A period of revival in the Christian churches.
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natural increase
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growth through reproduction: children
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Olaudah Equiano
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a freed slave who wrote about his experience as a slave: he was born in Nigeria in 1745, captured and sold by Africans at age 11, then ferreted between the New World, England, and the West Indies until he bought his freedom in 1766.
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deism
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a product of Enlightenment, it was the idea that God was in nature and science and reason rather than the Bible--natural order
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Redemptioners
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A type of indentured servant who could negotiate their own contracts and usually served for shorter time periods than indentured servants.
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George Whitfield
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A powerful speaker, he was a revivalist who preached all around about sin and salvation and moved his congregations to despair and begging for mercy from God.
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Task system
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When slaves were given certain tasks per day, such as a patch of land to be cultivated, and if they finished them early, they would get the remainder of the day off to do what they liked. This gave slaves a little more control over the pace of their work and the motivation to defend their limits if their masters tried to over-task them.
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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The phrase Immigrants used to describe themselves.
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Benjamin Franklin
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A deist founding father know for his fascination with electricity
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Stono Rebellion
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Slave revolt that helped bring oppressive laws into play.
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