AAAD-A150 Exam1

Relevant Questions:
1. Mother Bethel AME Church is located in what city?
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2. Former slave that founded the
Richard Allen
3. Swahili word for disaster or Holocaust?
Maafa
4. Literate, a coachman, and lead slave revolt in Haiti?
Toussaint LOuverture
5. Timbuktu was founded in which ancient African empire?
Malai and SongHai
6. Mandinca people were associated which what ancient African empire?
Malai
7. Painter of Building Stately Mansions?
Aaron Douglass
8. Lead revolt on the slave ship La Amistad?
Sinche
9. First black American to publish a book (poetry)?
Phyliss Wheatly
10. Name of a hymn created by African slaves?
Spiritual
11. Word used to describe the dispersal or forced migration of Africans to America?
Diaspora
12. Person that organized unsuccessful slave revolt in Charleston, South Carolina?
Denmark Veasy
13. Person who founded the African Masons or Masonic Order in 1775?
Prince Hall
14. The great basketball star Oscar Robinson attended what high school?
Crispus Attucks High School
15. 20 Africans from this place in Africa arrived in Jamestown, Virginia?
Ndonga
16. Ethiopian Awakening, sculpture created in 1914, was sculpted by who?
Meta Fuller
17. Founder of the city of Chicago? (biracial immigrant to the US)
Joan Dousabla
18. Thomas Jefferson had 5 biracial children with who?
Sally Hemmings
20. Legendary African leader Sundiata Keita was one of the founders of this ancient
African empire?
Malai
21. Case in which Supreme Court ruled that Blacks could have rights or be considered
citizens?
Dred Scott Decision
22. Which song was sang by Mahalia Jackson
Soon I Will Be Done & Troubles of the World
23. In this biblical book, it references Ethiopianism?
From Psalm 68:31
24. According to On being brought from Africa to America by Phillis Wheatley,
Cain (murdered brother Able)
25. Soninke people built what ancient African empire?
Ghannah
26. Slaved that published story of life in 1975, later became free man in England?
Equano
27. Word used by anthropologists to describe blending of religious practices?
Syncrotism
28. Leader of Americas war for independence, called for mass deportation of slaves?
Thomas Jefferson
29. Thomas Dorsi wrote what famous hymn?
Precious Lord, Take My Hand
30. Askia Muhammad
A ruler of the Songhay (or Songhai) Empire of West Africa in the late 15th and
early 16th centuries
31. First African American newspaper?
Freedoms Journal
32. Number of African Americans that participated on British side during Revolutionary
War?
20,000 (5,000 for US)
33. This colony had a higher black population than any of the other 13 colonies.
South Carolina (~53%)
34. Frederick Douglass and Toussaint LOuverture were painted by who?
Jacob Lawrence
35. Engaged in violent opposition to slaver in the south.
John Brown

Olaudah Equiano
(1745 - 1797)
The Son of an African chief, born in Nigeria, Africa in 1745 and belonged to the
Ibo tribe
Captured at age eleven by African slave traders
He was sent to the Caribbean and later sold to European traders
He was then transported to a plantation in Virginia where he was bought by British
naval officer Michael Henry Pascal. He named him Gustavus Vassa, after the 16
th

Century Swedish King.
He received many advantages including being taught to read and write English
He became a skillful sailor and later traded to Robert King. He provided Equiano
with the experience to begin his own trading business and save enough money to
buy his freedom in 1766.
Equiano eventually became an influential abolitionist

Overview of Chapters 1 & 11
Early Life and Culture of the Eboe:
Equiano tries to convince his white, European and American readers that the
African people who are turned into slaves in the Americas come from
civilized societies by describing his early life.
How does he describe his culture?
Questions;
What sign is used to mark an Embrenche? Describe what it means for an Eboe
man to be designated as Embrenche.
How does Equiano say the Eboe punish adultery?
How do the Eboe dress?
What kind of work do most people do?
How do Eboe people acquire slaves?
What does Equiano's first name, Olaudah mean?
Chapter 11
Return to Europe
How does Equiano describe his journey back to Europe, was it that easy?
What did he have to say about slaves at St Pierre?
What were freed slaves supposed to before finally allowing them to go?
What were the issues that Equiano was bidding farewell to before leaving
Montserrat.
What does he say about Negroes in Jamaica?

Gate of no return.
From: Upper Guinea-Senegambia to Sierra Leone
Lower Guinea The Gold Coast to the Bight of Benin & The Kongo-Angola,
Major source of traffic in people.
Phillis Wheatley(1753-1784)
1. She was kidnapped from West Africa and brought on the Ship Phillis which landed
in Massachusetts's Boston Harbor on July 11, 1761.
2. Sold at a slave auction to John and Susana Wheatley, not able to read or write,
incapable of speaking English.
3. She was named after the ship on which she had sailed from Africa.
4. Phillis proved to be intelligent and was allowed time off her chores to be given
lessons by the Wheatleys teenage daughter.
5. She studied astronomy, ancient and modern history, English literature, Latin, the
Bible and Poetry.
6. Wrote her first poem at age 13: On being brought from Africa to America.
7. Published her collection of poems at age 21, the first book of poetry written by an
African American (1773).
8. Called the Mother of Black Literature
POEMS
On being brought from Africa to America
She challenged members of the white society who saw African people as less
than human.
Do you agree with this statement? If yes why?
TO HIS EXCELLENCY GENERAL WASHINGTON
Washington was the newly appointed commander in chief of the Armies of North
America in October, 1775 to fight to free America from Great Britain. Wheatleys
poem was written when the outcome of the war wasnt certain, the British being
the obvious favorites to win. Washington after receiving this poem invited Phillis
over to Cambridge, Massachusetts to honor the invitation.
How will the freedom of America from the British benefit black Americans or why
should Phillis write this poem anyway?
TO THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE WROTE IN 1767
The poem addressed the students of what is now Harvard University in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. Phillis had learned that the students, who had a reputation for
being loud and defiant, were protesting because they had been served stale
butter. Phillis, with the disadvantages of being black, a slave, and female, could
only imagine what it would be like to receive a fine education. She thought it silly
that they would waste their energies worrying about something so minor as stale
butter and encouraged them to be grateful for their opportunities.
What were your initial views about this poem?
RICHARD ALLEN
Born a slave in Philadelphia
Joined the Methodist Church at age 20
Converted his master into Methodism and purchased his freedom.
Helped establish the Independent Free African Society.
Founded the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church in 1830.
Helped Sponsor the first national convention of black Americans in 1830.
1.) Who were the other three African Americans that helped Allen form his church
in Philly? Who were the two white individuals in Philly that helped Allen in starting
his church?
2.) What made them want to start their own church?
3.) Which African Diaspora Dimension, would the founding of the AME church fall
under?
4.) Do you think they should have started their own church? Was it necessary?
Benjamin Banneker
Born in 1731
His Grandfather was a slave from Africa and his grandmother an indentured
servant from England.
He grew up on the family farm and was taught to read by his Grandmother using
her Bible as a lesson book.
Later taught himself astronomy and advanced mathematics.
He was referred to as The First New Negro Man of Science.
1792 he published an Almanac which included commentaries that had political and
humanitarian purposescopy of which had the Letter to Thomas Jefferson
He challenged Jeffersons ideas about the inferiority of blacks.
1.) What was Bannekers response to Jefferson?
2.) What evidence did Banneker use to convince Jefferson of the wrongs of
slavery?
3.) Do you think Bannekers letter is radical?
4.) Are you surprised how Banneker approached Jefferson?
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Born on April 13, 1743 in Shadwell, Virginia.
Mother-Jane Randolph Jefferson was a royal from English and Scottish descent
Father- Peter Jefferson, a successful farmer, skilled surveyor who produced the
first accurate map of the province of Virginia.
1.) What was Jeffersons main proposal for the enslaved African population?
2.) What were some of Jeffersons beliefs about the African race?
3.) Why would these beliefs be considered the beginnings of scientific racism?
4.) Were you surprised by some of Jeffersons beliefs about African Americans?

Harriet Jacobs (1813-1897)
Born to Delilah Hornblow who was a slave to Margaret Hornblow in the town of
Edenton, North Carolina.
Dad- Daniel Jacobs, a carpentar- in the 1800s slaves could not be officially married
without permission from their masters, therefore the marriage between Delilah
and Daniel was not recorded.
Harriet moved to live with Margaret Horniblow after her Mother died. She taught
her how to sew, read and spell.
In 1825, Magaret Hornblow dies and leaves Harriet and her brother to her niece ,
Mary Narcom (Flint). Mary was a child and still lived at home which made Harriet
the property of Marys father, Dr. James Norcom (Flint).
Harriet and her brother essentially became house slaves for the doctor.
TREATMENT OF SLAVES
In the fields men, women and children were frequently beaten from the slightest
offense, they were beaten until pools of blood surrounded their feet then brine or
salted water often will be poured over the open flesh to make the wounds heal
more rapidly.
Mothers of children were thoroughly whipped, physically and in spirit, that they
raised no protest over the brutality to their children.
Weekly allotment of food on the plantation was barely enough for the slaves and
their families to survive on it.
Most of them slept on the floor and also walked barefooted in and around the
plantation.
Harriet/Linda was treated differently from all the other slaves
Incidents in the life of a slave girl Chapter vi- The jealous mistress
Mrs. Flint is suspicious of the attention her husband is bestowing upon Linda
becomes jealous and angry
Dr. Flint is forcing himself upon young slave girls (we are told he is the father of at
least eleven slave children)
Linda confesses to her mistress Dr. Flint had made advances to her, and that she
had resisted them.
Mrs. Flint is devastated and offer Linda some protection from her husbands plan.
Harriet Jacobs tells us that she is writing this narrative not to solicit sympathy for
her own sufferings but to motivate the reader to take action and help the millions
of Americans still living in slavery. How do you think the reading public, in 1861,
are likely to have responded to the book? Based on what you have read, do you
think it was a useful tool for inciting social change?
Ms. Jacobs decided to publish this narrative under the pseudonym Linda Brent and
used fictitious names for the other characters in this, otherwise non-fiction book.
Why do you think Ms. Jacobs decided not to use her real name or the real names
of the other people in the story?
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl tell us one woman's perspective of her
experience in slavery. What can we know about slavery from one person's story?
Would the narrative be more effective if it included other slaves' viewpoints? Why
or why not?