AAAD 150 1st Edition Exam 1 Study Guide Lectures 1 10 Chapter 1 What is the Diaspora It is the forced movement of African Americans from their homeland to the New World The differences that African Diaspora caused were language and religion The language became different compared to their mother tongue African Americans were typically Christian while the Africans were typically Muslim Diaspora also deprived the African Americans of close knowledge with their ties back in Africa Where was Timbuktu located Mali and Songhay Who was David Walker Had thoughts that Africans noble past would prove that their continent would regain greatness He maintained the thought that African races could look back to achievements such as arts and sciences pyramids and other structures What are some of the important facts about Ghana Kumbi Saleh Important trading center Soninke Ruling people King Tenkemenin Made everything really flourish until Muslim invaded What are some of the important facts about Mali Mandinke Ruling people Timbuktu Major city Sundiata Keita Mansa Musa Rulers What are some of the important facts about Songhay Songhay Ruling people Timbuktu Major city Sonni Ali Askia Mohammed Rulers Chapter 2 Who were the Ndonga They were a group of 20 people that had landed in Jamestown VA and had gotten ambushed in a brutal wave of warfare and kidnapped from the Imbangala tribe who were allies with the Portuguese slave traders Who was Ayuba Diallo He was a Muslim slave trader that got kidnapped on his way home while unguarded and sold as a slave Later on he got discovered through a slave trader and got back his freedom and moved back home and continued to be a slave trader Who was Oldudah Equiano He was captured with his sister at age 11 and was put onto a slave ship and was sold to many different masters He learned from many of his different experiences and later was able to purchase his freedom Afterwards he had campaigned against slavery and made an auto biography What was the Middle Passage It was the journey from Africa to the New Land on the slave ship The conditions were horrid and many of the slaves had died due to disease insufficient food and cramped space Portuguese ships had lowest rates of deaths and English ships had highest rates of deaths Chapter 3 Who was Harry Hosier Was the first black Methodist preacher and was born enslaved He was also a participant in meetings that institutionalized American Methodism What was Richard Allen famous for He was the founder of the AME church and he was also the first to write down and record the first spiritual and he also founded the Free African Society of Philadelphia His preaching ability helped him gain his freedom Who is Phillis Wheatley She was the first African American published poet However she had a muffled voice due to her surroundings and what she was and was not allowed to say She reminded her readers that Africans have full humanity and deserved freedom Who was Jean Baptiste Du Sable He was a man of mixed nature born in Haiti with a French dad and an enslaved mother He was educated and worked with his dad as a sea captain and moved to the mainland and founded Chicago has a permanent trading post Who was Daniel Coker He was one of the founders for the AME church as well as the West African Methodist church He was also a missionary in Sierra Leone and made many pamphlets opposing slavery Chapter 4 Who was Anthony Benezet He organized the world s first antislavery society in Pennsylvania He was a white Quaker and abolitionist and believed that all men were created equal Who was Crispus Attucks He was the first African American to participate and fight in an American cause and died in the Boston Massacre Who was Prince Hall He was the founder of the lodge of the Freemasons He also petitioned the Massachusetts legislature to request aid in emigrating to Africa known as the Back to Africa movement but the request was denied Who was Toussaint L Ouverture He led the first slave revolution in Haiti and defeated many Great Britain Spanish and French forces This created the second democratic country in the Americas What was the purpose of the American Colonization Society Movement that wanted all free blacks to be sent back to Africa because they felt America was a place solely for white men However this did not happen due to the Negro Convention Movement Who was Frederick Douglas He was an enslaved African American that escaped around 21 years old and was famous for his anti slavery writing He wrote several autobiographies and was a leader in the abolitionist movement He was inspired by William Garrison who wrote The Liberator Who was John Brown He was a white abolitionist who believed that freedom would take bloodshed and tried to create a slave revolt in Virginia He was known for freeing slaves and then killing their masters He tried to take over Harper s Ferry and seize US weaponry but he was caught by Robert E Lee Also participated in Bleeding Kansas which was a fight for popular sovereignty Who was Sojourner Truth She was originally a concubine and ended up being a Christian Pilgrim for women Sojourner means a religious kind of wanderer And once she was freed she had to win her son back and ended up being the first African American to defeat a white man in court Also was an inspiring orator Chapter 5 What was the Domestic Slave Trade It was the huge trade of buying and selling people More than 1 million people of the enslaved were traded It satisfied 2 needs allowed the division of save owners property to pay off debts and workers could be sold to farmers in need of labor because agriculture was starting to boom In general slave prices were increasing and sales were profitable And many owners participated in eugenic practices How did slaves receive physical and psychological trauma Physical Lack of food lack of clothing beatings was hard and brutal punishments when misbehaved Psychological Not allowed to express anger when physical beatings were dealt to themselves or their family members Many also suffered from post traumatic stress syndrome Who was Gabriel The man who led a massive march with many slaves in Virginia until the Governor called the militia on them Who was Denmark Vesey He brought in revolutionaries from Haiti to make an attack on Charleston South Carolina that would involve thousands of slaves However it didn t happen because his plan was revealed and he was hung later on because he wouldn t tell his secrets Who was