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