Lecture 4 Flashcards
Marronage
Running away or escaping from the slave owner or the slave master or the slavery plantation and to live in the maroon societies, swamps of the southern States
The underground railroad
Network of sympathetic people and “safe houses” ( a largely informal network of some 3,200 people of all races in the north and west who helped fugitives slaves make their way to freedom)
The brush arbors
Secret place of meeting of black people
America revolutionary war
Black soldiers in the war (April 19, 1775-sep.3,1783)
Which wars did black people fight in before the revolutionary war
- king William’s war (1690-1697)
- Queen Anne’s war of (1702-1713)
-King George’s war of (1744-1748)
-The French and indianwar(1755 - 1763)
1770: crispus attucks
(Afro-indian)l Americas first martyr killed in the Boston massacre
Boston massacre (March 5,1770)
Riot in Boston arising from the resentment of Boston colonists toward British troops quartered in the city, where the troops fired on the mob and killed several people
November 1775 George Washington
Forbade Black men from fighting on the British side; 20,000 black men joined