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- 4. The first black republic in the world; created after a major slave rebellion
- 6. last name of man that led the largest slave rebellion in Virginia
- 7. Religion originating in West Africa; mainly associated with the Caribbean; brought over by African slaves
- 12. type of communities made up of escaped slaves
- 14. Name given for black songs that were used in churches and as clues for escaping slavery
- 16. _________ slavery is a type of slavery where humans are treated as property
- 17. Hand-held instrument that was brought by African slaves to North America; used in many country songs today
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- 1. First European country to engage in the African slave trade in the 1400s.
- 2. The city in South Carolina where one of the largest slave rebellions occurred in the 1700s
- 3. In the video we watched in class, Dr. Henry Louis Gates traveled back to _______ Leone, a country in West Africa where many slaves were captured
- 5. The _________ Rebellion occurred in South Carolina in 1739. Many runaway slaves were captured and murdered.
- 8. musical instrument essential to African culture; its usage was ultimately banned in South Carolina
- 9. __________ Equiano wrote a book detailing the horrors the journey slaves took from Africa to the New World
- 10. The __________ Passage was the journey that slaves were forced to take across the Atlantic
- 11. African American language that still exists today in coastal South Carolina & Georgia
- 13. vegetable; typically fried; brought to the New World by African slaves
- 15. Nathaniel __________ led a rebellion involving indentured servants in Virginia; this led to the importation of African slaves