Chapter 16 Flashcards

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West Africa Squadron

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British Royal Navy Force that enforced the abolition of the slave trade

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breakers

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Slave drivers who used the lash to weaken slave morale

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black belt

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Region of South with highest concentration of slaves

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responsorial

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Style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions

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Nat Turner’s rebellion

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Virginia slave revolt

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Amistad

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Spanish slave ship seized off the coast of Cuba by enslaved Africans

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American Colonization Society

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Organization foumded to transport blacks back to Africa

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Liberia

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West-African nation founded to transport blacks from America

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The Liberator

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Anti-slavery newspaper that called for immediate emancipation of all slaves

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American Anti-Slavery Society

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Abolitionist organization that advocated the immediate abolition of slavery

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Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

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Abolitionist track advocating the violent overthrow of slavery

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

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Autobiography of ex-slave Frederick Douglass

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Mason-Dixon Line

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Divide over slavery between North and South

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Gag Resolution

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Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals

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William T. Johnson

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Free black who owned slaves

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Nat Turner

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Black preacher; led slave rebellion

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William Wilberforce

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Member of Parliament who freed slaves in the West Indies

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Theodore Dwight Weld

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Appealed to rural audiences in abolitionist movement

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Abolitionist reformer; published anti-slavery newspaper

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David Walker

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Free black who published a track advocating the overthrow of slavery

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Sojourner Truth

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Freed black woman who fought for emancipation ans women’s rights

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Martin Delany

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Black leader that suported mass recolonization of Africa

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Frederick Douglass

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Black abolitionist and escaped slave