Slavery Unit

Slavery is

• the practice or system of owning slaves

• people who are held against their will.

• people who are forced to work without pay for a number of years to pay off a debt.

• the state of being subject to unjust treatment or control.

Slaves are

• a person held in servitude as property of another

• a person bound to work for another for a certain amount of time to pay off a debt.

Atlantic Creoles

• people of mixed French/Spanish and African decent from the West Indies.

• A ship that carried slaves through the Middle Passage

• a person held in servitude of another as property.

Plantation

• a very large farm used to grow cash crops

• a series of secrete pathways to freedom

• an executive decision that freed slaves

Freedom is

• the liberty to make choices for yourself

• to be free of another's control

• the pursuit of happiness

• to live in servitude of another

The Underground Railroad was a railroad underground that secretly took slaves to the North for freedom.

• True

• False

Slaves were not allowed to

• read

• write

• be educated

• ask for passes to travel

Slaves would secretly create schools at night to teach reading and writing because knowledge = freedom.

• True

• False

The South's economy depended on slavery.

• True

• False

Children of slaves were born free.

• True

• False