Test 1

Front 1

How Does Douglass learn to read and write?

Back 1

One of his mistresses teaches him the alphabet

He tricks the other boys into helping him learn

He practices in secret

Front 2

Back 2

This is an image of a sugar mill

Front 3

Frederick Douglass says slaves sing because they:

Back 3

are unhappy

Front 4

While on the plantation, Douglass claimed the major source of food for slaves was:

Back 4

Mush

Front 5

According to Vincent Harding, "Black History" emphasized the contributions of African Americans to United States society and culture and refrained from criticizing U.S. political values.

Back 5

False

Front 6

Which of the following was a 15th century Portuguese plantation slave society?

Back 6

Madeira

Front 7

Why does Douglass believe that city slaveholders are usually less cruel than rural slaveholders

Back 7

They are conscious of the disapproval of their non-slaveholding neighbors.

Front 8

The Black Sea Slave Trade was an important model for the Transatlantic Slave trade because enslaved blacks were being traded by sea as early as 1250.

Back 8

False

Front 9

Which of the following historians was among the first professionally trained in African American history?

Back 9

Carter G. Woodson

Front 10

Which is not an example of slave art?

A.) Marimbulas

B.) Ring Shout

C.) Praise houses

D.) Work Songs

Back 10

Praise houses

Front 11

Definition of slavery

Back 11

1.) Permanent, violent domination (ex. Demby)

2.) Natally alienated (ex. Douglass separated from mother)

3.)Generally dishonor (ex. Aunt Hester)

Front 12

Characteristics of Slavery

Back 12

racial, inheritable, permanent, massive scale

Front 13

Key Examples of Slavery

Back 13

Transatlantic slave trade

Colonial Virginia

Front 14

Transatlantic Slave trade

Back 14

11 million Slaves

Plantations move west Cyprus Madeira

Models - black sea slave trade (maritime trade)

Trans-Saharan trade (Africans)

Slave trade experience: slave ships: prisons weapons factories brookes

Middle passage: 3 walks Equiano's

Front 15

Colonial VA

Back 15

Laws (1640-1660) Started creating laws that made slavery permanent and able to be passed through blood line permanent and inheritable

Winthrop Jordan

Front 16

Sociology of slavery

Back 16

Slave labor

Slave culture

Slave Community

Slave Resistance

Front 17

Slave labor -Determinants

Back 17

geography, commodity (Sugar, tobacco, corn)

Front 18

Slave labor - Types

Back 18

Domestic- may be easier but heavy surveillance

Field- Gang, work together from sun up to sun down

or Task, finished when you finish your work

Front 19

Slave culture- Orgins

Back 19

-creolization (rapid)

-African Cultur cont. (gradual)

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Slave culture- Elements

Back 20

Religion: visible (out in the open), invisible (slaves able to practice in secret)

Art: Materials, performance music Ring shout

Oral tradition Brer Rabbit-> small rabbit defeating the bad guys

Front 21

Slave Community

Back 21

Family: children (socialization) Aunt hester

Shared Culture: communicated through the grape vine (rivalries)

Glared Space-quaters

Front 22

Slave Resistance

Back 22

Goals: survival, freedom, abolition

Front 23

Slave Resistance0- Types

Back 23

1. Day to day

2. Flight (outliers, didnt plan to leave) and (maroons never coming back)

Rebellion: Stono, Nat Turner