Transcript Facing Slavery - Fayette County Public Schools

Chapter 8
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The western part of
Africa where slaves
were bought or
captured and taken as
slaves to the
Americas.
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The African society was
based on family.
Relatives lived in the same
village.
The also worshipped the
spirits of their ancestors.
They danced and sang
chants to ask the spirits to
protect them.
Another of their common
traditions was
storytelling. Fables,
legends and myths helped
these people learn about
their culture and history.
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Someone from whom
you are descended
(but usually further
back than a
grandparent)
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A western African
storyteller who recites
the history of a tribe
or family.
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Slavery is a form of
forced labor in which
people are considered
to be the property of
others.
Slaves can be held
against their will from
the time of their
capture, purchase or
birth, and deprived of
the right to leave, to
refuse to work, or to
demand wages.
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People from Africa
who were forced to
give up their freedom
and spend their lives
obeying and working
for their “owners,” or
masters.
Enslaved Africans
were treated as
property that could
be bought and sold.
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Some refused to take part in the slave trade.
Other West Africans tried to find slaves outside
their own nations.
Some West African groups did not raid villages.
Instead, they traded people who were already
slaves, such as prisoners they had captured
during their previous wars.
A dilemma:
1.
Take part in the slave trade.
2.
Become a slave yourself when the neighboring
tribe becomes more powerful and causes a war
with you, taking you as a slave.
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An ocean trip.
An act of traveling by
water .
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Situations in which a
person is forced to
make a choice, even
though there is no
good choice to make.
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The voyage of slave
traders and enslaved
Africans across the
Atlantic Ocean from
Africa to the
Americas.
Some slaves tried to kill themselves by
refusing to eat or jumping off of the ship.
2. Some slaves rebelled by attacking their crew
with crude weapons that they had made.
3. Many slaves tried to maintain enough strength
to survive
Another dilemma:
1. Choose to die on the voyage to America.
2. Working for the rest of your life as slave.
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To stand up or offer
resistance to
somebody or
something
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Rebellion: organized
opposition to
authority
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A large area of
privately owned
land where crops
were grown with
the labor of
workers or slaves
who lived on the
land.
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A sale in which slaves
were sold to buyers
who bid (offered
prices) for them.
Usually a slave was
sold to the person
making the highest
bid.
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Some of the slaves attempted to escape.
Some of the slaves pretended to be sick.
Some pretended to not understand.
Some broke tools or set buildings on fire.
Some tried to kill themselves.
Many slaves chose to work hard and to what
they were told so they could be moved into the
house to be servants and/or taught a trade so
they could try to buy their freedom.
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A person who was in
charge of the work of
slaves and could
punish them for
disobeying him.
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A public sale where the price was the same for
each slave.
When the gate was opened, buyers rushed in
and “scrambled” around grabbing the slaves
they wanted.
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The slaves has to
survive a period of
“breaking in” or
adjusting to his or her
new life.
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