chapter 16 Flashcards
= known as the planter class, was a social class of wealthy landowners in the American colonies and early republic. The planter class was made up of people who owned or were financially connected to plantations, which were large-scale farms that produced cash crops for sale.
- Planter Aristocracy
= slave drivers who employed the lash to brutally “break” the souls of strong-willed slaves
Breakers
= region of the deep south with the highest concentration of slaves. The “black belt” emerged in the 19th century as cotton production became more profitable and slavery expanded south and west.
- black belt
= call and response style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions. Practiced by African slaves in the south (348)
- Responsorial
= operated several barber shops and a bathhouse, owned land and buildings which he rented out, and regularly loaned money at interest to black and white men alike. He was also a slaveowner, as were many other free blacks in the South. In 1851 Johnson was murdered in a land dispute.
- William T. Johnson
= (1831) Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among white southerners of further uprisings (348)
- Nat Turner’s Rebellion
= (1839( Spanish slave ship dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard. The ship was driven ashore in Long Island and the slaves were put on trial. Former president John Quincy Adams argued their case before the supreme court, securing their eventual release.
- Amistad
= reflecting the focus of early abolitionists on transporting freed blacks back to settlement intended as a haven for emancipated slaves. (349)
- American Colonization Society
= West African nation founded in 1822 as a haven for freed blacks, 15 thousand of whom made their way back across the Atlantic by the 1860s (349)
Liberia
= prohibited debate or action antislavery appeals. Driven through the house by pro slavery southerners, the gag resolution passed every year for eight years, eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy Adams (256)
- Gag Resolution
= (1803-1895) was a leader in the American abolitionist movement
- Theodore Dwight Weld
= (1797 - 1883) was a prominent figure in the women’s rights and abolitionist movements. She was a speaker, author, and advocate for justice who fought for the rights of African Americans and women
Sojourner Truth
= 1785-1830) was a free African American abolitionist who contributed to the anti-slavery movement in several ways
- David Walker
