Chapter 16 Flashcards
West Africa Squadron
British Royal Navy Force that enforced the abolition of the slave trade
breakers
Slave drivers who used the lash to weaken slave morale
black belt
Region of South with highest concentration of slaves
responsorial
Style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions
Nat Turner’s rebellion
Virginia slave revolt
Amistad
Spanish slave ship seized off the coast of Cuba by enslaved Africans
American Colonization Society
Organization foumded to transport blacks back to Africa
Liberia
West-African nation founded to transport blacks from America
The Liberator
Anti-slavery newspaper that called for immediate emancipation of all slaves
American Anti-Slavery Society
Abolitionist organization that advocated the immediate abolition of slavery
Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Autobiography of ex-slave Frederick Douglass
Mason-Dixon Line
Divide over slavery between North and South
Gag Resolution
Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals
William T. Johnson
Free black who owned slaves