Chapter/Packet 15 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Black belts
Deep South with the highest concentration of slaves.
Beakers
Slave drivers who employed the last to brutally “break” the souls of strong-willed slaves
Responsorial
Call and response style of preaching that melded Christian and African traditions. Practiced by African slaves in the south.
Institution of slaves
directed at both Southern and Northern audiences. Tyson, himself a slaveholder, hoped to convince white Northerners to rebuff President Abraham Lincoln by rejecting emancipation and to instead pursue peace with the Confederacy, thus saving the Union.
Southern cotton production
provide revenue for its government, arms for its military, and the economic power for a diplomatic strategy for the fledgling Confederate nation.
Antislavery movements
The abolitionist movement was an organized effort to end the practice of slavery in the United States. The first leaders of the campaign, which took place from about 1830 to 1870, mimicked some of the same tactics British abolitionists had used to end slavery in Great Britain in the 1830s.
Nat turners rebellion
Virginia slave revolt that resulted in the deaths of sixty whites and raised fears among whites southerner of further uprisings.
Amistad
Spanish slave shop dramatically seized off the coast of Cuba by the enslaved Africans aboard.
Southern defense of slavery as a positive good
They argued that the slaves were in actuality happy, content and well cared for.
Eli whitney
best remembered as the inventor of the cotton gin, he was also the father of the mass production method. In 1798, he figured out how to manufacture muskets by machine so that the parts were interchangeable. It was as a manufacturer of muskets that Whitney finally became rich. He died in 1825.
Theodore Dwight weld
After leaving Lane Seminary, Weld became a lecturer for the American Anti-Slavery Society. As the anti-slavery agent for Ohio, charged with converting westerners to the idea of slavery as a national sin, Weld became known as the most mobbed man in America.
American colonization society
Reflecting the focus of early abolitionist on transporting freed blacks back to Africa. To Liberia
William Lloyd Garrison
printer, newspaper publisher, radical abolitionist, suffragist, civil rights activist William Lloyd Garrison spent his life disturbing the peace of the nation in the cause of justice. Born on December 10, 1805, Garrison grew up in Newburyport, Massachusetts
Sojourner Truth
A former slave, Sojourner Truth became an outspoken advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women’s rights in the nineteenth century.
Am appeal to the colored citizen to the world
Incendiary abolitionist tract advocating the violent overthrow of slavery. Published by David Walker, southern born free black.
The liberator
Antislavery newspaper published by William Lloyd garrison who called for the immediate emancipation of all slaves.
Fredrick Douglass
was a formerly enslaved man who became a prominent activist, author and public speaker. He became a leader in the abolitionist movement, which sought to end the practice of slavery, before and during the Civil War.
Mason Dixon line
originally the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania in the United States. In the pre-Civil War period it was regarded, together with the Ohio River, as the dividing line between slave states south of it and free-soil states north of it
Gag resolution
Prohibited debate or action on antislavery appeals. Driven through the house by proslavery southerners, the gag resolution passed every year for 8 years and was eventually overturned with the help of John Quincy adams
Slave narratives
Vivid written accounts of suffering on the plantation and daring escape, allowed black men and women to expose the cruelty of slaver and to introduce themselves to a skeptical northern audience as a articulate human beings.
West Africa Squadron
British Royal Navy force formed to enforce the abolition of the slave trade in 1807. It intercepted hundreds of slave ships and freed thousands of Africans.
