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- The process by which newly arrived Africans were broken in to slavery in the Americas
- The practice of owners contracting out their slaves to work for other employers.
- System of slavery in which slaves worked in groups under the direction of a slave driver.
- True or False: the first 20 Africans to arrive to Jamestown were indentured servants.
- A Virginia blacksmith and slave who planned to attack Richmond’s wealthiest slave owners while sparring poor whites
- ________________ was the name of the black man that was killed at the Boston Massacre on March 5, 1777. He was hailed as a hero and the first casualty of the American Revolution.
- All of the following are reasons Africans were chosen as slaves rather than Native Americans Except
- was the name of the black indentured servant who was sentenced to work as a slave for the rest of his life. This case established the precedent of perpetual slavery in America based on race.
- This was one of the forms of daily resistance carried out by slaves:
- A slave rebellion in South Carolina led by slaves hoping to find freedom at Fort Mose in Spanish Florida
- The Atlantic slave trade ended in ___________ (year), which outlawed the importation of slaves from Africa to the Americas. This led to the _________________ slave trade.
- Cargo traded from Africa to the Americas
- True or False: Most slaves preferred working in the house rather than in the fields.
- South Carolina preacher who won the lottery and purchased his freedom; used the network of the Church to plot his revolt
- The largest concentration of African slaves were sent to________________
- The first European country to enter the transatlantic slave trade
- Black author, inventor, and scientist, who sent his almanac and a letter to Thomas Jefferson
- True or False: African men were worth half the market price of African women.
- led one of the bloodiest slave revolts in US History which sparked widespread fear of slave violence in the south
- The "three points" of the triangular trade included all of the following Except