SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES
SLAVE TRADE AFRICANS WERE BROUGHT IN FROM WEST AFRICA SOME BY FORCE, SOME THROUGH TRADE ASANTI AND YORUBA WERE ACTIVE SLAVE TRADERS
SLAVE TRADE CONDITIONS DURING THE TRADE- UNHEALTHY UNSANITARY CRAMPED MANY STARVED
VARIED FROM OWNER TO OWNER SOME TREATED WELL TREATMENT VARIED FROM OWNER TO OWNER SOME TREATED WELL SOME WERE ABUSED EXCESSIVELY
TREATMENT FAMILIES WERE TORN APART NO READING OR WRITING ALLOWED COMMUNICATION = SONGS SPIRITUALS CALL AND RESPONSE
ABOLITIONIST - PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO END SLAVERY IN THE U.S.
ABOLITIONISTS WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON - BEGAN “THE LIBERATOR” MAGAZINE FREDERICK DOUGLASS - FORMER SLAVE WHO BECAME A POWERFUL SPEAKER AGAINST THE EVILS OF SLAVERY
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD WAS A SYSTEM OF SECRET TRAILS AND NETWORKS THAT HELPED TO FREE HUNDREDS OF SLAVES
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD HARRIET TUBMAN - AN ESCAPED SLAVE WHO LEAD THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONDUCTOR PASSENGER STATIONS
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD CONDUCTOR- SOMEONE WHO LEAD SLAVES TO FREEDOM PASSENGER- A RUNAWAY SLAVE STATION- PLACE WHERE SLAVES WOULD HIDE UNTIL REACHING THE NORTH