Chapter 16 Flashcards
West Africa Squadron
Sinks or stops ships containing slaves
breakers
break the slaves into submission
black belt
deep south that has a a lot of slaves
responsorial
black people responds to prayers
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
Preacher leads rebellion killing 70 people. Leads to reaction in south
Amistad
Black slaves try to sail back to Africa in captured ship
American Colonization Society
want to send slaves back to Africa
The Liberator
first abolitionist News Paper
American Anti-Slavery Society
Founded by William Garrison, society of Abolitionists
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
David Walker proposes bloody end
Narratives of the Life of Frederick Douglas
story of Frederick Douglas
Mason-Dixon Line
divides north and south
Gag Resolution
south wants to table all antislavery appeals
William T Johnson
black entrepeneur
Nat Turner
preacher that leads black slave revolt