Across
- 2. What type of services were enslaved people often forbidden from holding without supervision?
- 3. What document did free people of color need to carry in some states?
- 6. Who wrote the first defense of African enslavement based on skin color?
- 9. What economic activity were enslaved people generally prohibited from engaging in?
- 10. What term describes informal, everyday customs in society?
- 12. What theory linked skin color to climate?
- 13. What legal status did children of enslaved mothers inherit?
- 15. How could an enslaved person be emancipated?
Down
- 1. What term describes laws that restricted the rights of free African Americans?
- 2. What religious-based theory was used to justify slavery?
- 4. Who proposed the "family order" concept to justify slavery?
- 5. What specific laws were used to control enslaved people?
- 7. What was illegal for enslaved people to learn?
- 8. What was the name for former enslaved people who escaped to free states?
- 11. What punishment did enslaved people often face for learning to read?
- 14. What term describes the process of freeing an enslaved person?