Slavery Vocabulary
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Slavery in America
By Liane Hicks
Beginning in 1619, African men, women, and children were kidnapped from their homeland and shipped in brutal conditions to the American colonies to endure a life of hardship in bondage as slaves. While the international slave trade was outlawed in 1808, slavery continued in America, particularly in the southern states, throughout the 1800s. Slavery is an inextricable part of the story of America and it was rooted in racism that still impacts our society today.
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Create a storyboard illustrating vocabulary relating to slavery in the Americas.
Storyboard Text
- SLAVE AUCTION
- "We were pent up like so many sheep in a fold ... without scruple, relations and friends are separated ... never to see each other again ..." - Olaudah Equiano, 1789
- UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
- "I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other." - Harriet Tubman
- JUNETEENTH
- “The people of Texas are informed that, in accordance with a proclamation from the executive of the United States, all slaves are free."- Maj. Gen. Gordon Granger, June 19, 1865
- A public sale usually held in the center of town, in which people were sold like property as slaves to the highest bidders. People were chained and treated less than animals with no human rights or dignity.
- A network of people, homes, hideouts that enslaved people used to escape to get to free states and Canada. Conductors, like Harriet Tubman, were people who helped lead enslaved people to freedom.
- Juneteenth marks the day when federal troops arrived in Galveston, TX in 1865 to ensure that all enslaved people were freed. It was two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed.
- SLAVERY IN AMERICA VOCABULARY
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