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where were colono ware bowls with X’s found?

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in rivers next to rice plantations

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What did the X’s on bowls resemble?

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Bakongo cosmograms

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What happened at Fort Mose?

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the Spanish armed Black soldiers to revolt against slaveholders

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What slave ship had a famous rebellion?

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Omnastad

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What were the consequences of failed resistance?

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dismemberment, lynching, selling to another plantation, other forms of punishment

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What was the population of African Americans who created their own settlements called?

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Maroons

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what were the people who guided slaves north called?

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conductors

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how many slaves traveled the Underground Railroad?

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100,000

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Before slavery was illegal in the North, where did slaves run?

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the West, Spanish Florida, Caribbean, or Mexico

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What were the conditions for Spanish becoming allies with runaway slaves?

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Africans fought for Spanish and became catholic

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What was the first free Black community in North America?

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Fort Mose

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why did Black people fight in the revolutionary war?

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they thought they would be freed

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what was a song the slaves sung to secretly discuss how to flee North?

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Follow the Drinking Gourd

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type of ethnogenetic process that created new cultural groups

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fissioning

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formation and development of an ethnic group

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ethnogenesis

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What is a major African seminole settlement in Florida?

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Pilaklikaha

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why is 1619 not the origin of slavery in North America?

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There were slaves in Spanish colonies from the 1500s

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why are most African Seminole settlements in southern Florida?

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British and US raids in Northern Florida

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What is another name for Pilaklikaha?

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Abraham’s Town

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How did the Seminole Indians acquire European artifacts?

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buying them, barter, trade, raids, underground economy

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What did the Gullah farm?

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indigo and cotton

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What is the primary African influence for coastal African groups?

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Kongo-Angola with some Liberia and Sierra Leone

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What did African religion emphasize?

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honoring human life

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a means of reducing the pervading spirit world to an organization where humans could be spirits too

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Poro-Sande

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the period between choosing to become a Christian and acceptance into the church
seekin'
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Kindoki
bad medicine
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Minkisi
good medicine
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who did the Gullah believe heaven was for?
people who suffered
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creolization of African languages and English
Afrish
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what are some of the Gullah burial practices?
broken items on grave, passing baby over grave of its ancestor
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female secret society
Sande
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male secret society
Poro society
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how did the secret societies function in African societies?
trials, bonding with neighboring towns, check rules, regulate society
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what are three concerns of the Gullah people now?
land dispossession, tourism, language preservation
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what was the purpose of Gullah oral traditions?
entertaining and teaching ethical living
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system of symbols, beliefs, codes, and rituals that orient people in a world of every day and extraordinary events and powers
religion
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humans and spirits traverse this cycle of transitions, creating life and interacting
Bakongo cosmology
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singing spirituals while dancing in a circle
ring shout
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What are some characteristics of Osun?
healer, artist, mother, bringer of joy and laughter, reconciler, feminine principle of sensuality, gratifying spirit
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versions and incarnations of Osun
Orishas
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a creole religion combining African religions and catholicism to create an Afro-Brazilian religion
Candomble
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How many aspects (Orishas) are there?
401
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who is the Arugba?
a young virgin who carries the sacrifice for Osun's ceremony
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What impact does Osun have on others?
supporter, healer, nurturer
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terms that convey a racial sensibility but generally are not recognized or criticized as being racist
racial code words
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means of producing social knowledge about the patterns of belief and behavior that shape daily life as a meaningful condition
ethnography
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highlighting individual achievements or failings while obscuring the role of social advantage and disadvantage in shaping a person's life and understanding
individualism
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process by which social, economic, and political forces determine the content and importance of racial categories and how those are shaped by racial meanings
racial formation
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collections of stories, gossip, narratives, and images on which we rely to make sense of any particular situation
racial formation
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how does hip hop impact people outside the US?
youth identity, cultural expression, social commentary, advocacy
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process by which social groups achieve coherence and distinctiveness by being identified with the natural phenomena
totemism
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belief that one's racial identity is fixed by any trace of physical inheritance
hypodescent
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what is an example of hypo descent?
one drop rule
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the belief that all people fall into clearly defined, permanent racial types
racial formalism
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selective vision that only recognizes aspects of black life that seem antithetical to whites' self-conceptions
otherness
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a complex social landscape dominated by the fastest-growing pan ethnic groups
racial middle
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access to white privileges only comes to those who are allowed to cross over to the nonblack side of the dichotomy
whitening thesis
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emergence of collective identity (people of color) reflecting rejection of whiteness while maintaining relationships between separate races
browning thesis
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What was the purpose behind abolitionists pushing for repatriation?
helping African Americans find jobs, spread Christianity to Africa, spread western style economy
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What is the town founded by Thomas Peters in Sierra leone
Freetown
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What was slavery abolished in England?
1807
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what goods did Liberia produce?
palm oil, camwood, coffee, sugar, and molasses
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Who were the Bombay Africans?
black slaves repatriated in Eastern African colonies after British colonies ended slavery
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who united Black and brown people as Pan Africans?
Marcus Garvey
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secret places in the woods where slaves could have prayer meetings
hush harbors
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What were obstacles to successful African American settlements in African colonies?
disease, indigenous attacks, international wars, colonists exploited everyone

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