On the Back of People Enslaved: Vocabulary Part 1

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Across
  1. 1. emotional Christian songs created by enslaved people in the South that mixed African and European elements and usually expressed the religious beliefs and experiences of enslaved people
  2. 3. an increase in population that occurs when the number of births is greater than the number of deaths
  3. 5. the sale, exchange, and forced migration of enslaved people within the United States
  4. 7. Delaware, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania when they were part of colonial America before the founding of the United States
  5. 9. an 1839 revolt of African captives aboard a Spanish slave ship that led to court cases in the United States and eventual freedom for the captives
  6. 11. the transportation of captured Africans across the Atlantic Ocean by slave traders, primarily to islands in the Caribbean and to North and South America
  7. 16. a belief that White people are superior to and should be able to control people of other races
  8. 17. Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia when they were part of colonial North America before the founding of the United States
  9. 19. an enslaved blacksmith and leader of a major, but unsuccessful, slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia, in 1800
  10. 20. a group of animals, prisoners, or enslaved people chained together in a line
  11. 21. Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island when they were part of colonial America before the founding of the United States; today New England includes Maine and Vermont
  12. 22. a phrase used to describe the political and economic importance of cotton production in the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War
  13. 23. a historical term for islands in the Caribbean that were formerly under British control, including the Bahamas, Saint Lucia, Antigua, Grenada, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad
Down
  1. 2. laws passed in the colonies to control enslaved people
  2. 4. an idea that suggests any one racial group is inferior or superior to another racial group
  3. 6. any measure or custom that produces or reinforces inequities between racial groups; also known as systemic racism, structural racism or institutional racism
  4. 8. a large farm usually specializing in a single crop
  5. 10. a ship used to transport slaves
  6. 12. a system in which enslaved people are considered property that can be bought, sold, given, or inherited, and are denied all rights and legal authority over themselves and their children
  7. 13. the forced migration of approximately 1 million enslaved people from states in the Upper to the Lower South; another term for the domestic slave trade
  8. 14. the transatlantic trip from West Africa to the Americas endured by captured Africans aboard slavers
  9. 15. workers who accepted free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years, usually four to seven years
  10. 18. men hired by enslavers to oversee and direct the work of enslaved people on plantations