Racism

p. 269

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Textbook Definition: Prejudice based on race.
Sentence: Whether African Americans lived in slavery, freedom, racism shaped their lives.

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Discrimination

p. 271

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Textbook Definition: Unequal treatment based on a person's race, gender, religion, place of birth, or other arbitary characteristic.

Sentence: But Blacks experienced discrimination, or unequal treatment, everywhere they turned.

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Segregation

p. 271

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Textbook Definition: The social seperation of groups of people, espically by race.

Sentence: In addition to unequal treatment, policies of segregation seperated blacks from whites in nearly all public places.

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W.E.B

p. 269

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Textbook Definition: Such racist thinking prompted African American scholar and reformer W.E.B. Bu Bois to aska  question.

Sentence: W.E.B. spoke about how unfair the white were being.

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Frederick Douglass

p. 270-271

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Textbook Definition: Former slave , Frederick Douglass toured the North talking to white audiences about slavery.

Sentence: Douglass reminded his lsiteners that the law defined slaves as property, not human beings.

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Underground Railroad

p. 278

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Textbook Definition: Thousands of runaways escaped to free states and to Canada with the help of the Ungerground Railroad, a secret network of free blacks and sympathetic whites.

Sentence:The members of the underground railroad transportation and "safe houses," where runaways could hide.
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Harriet Tubman

p. 278

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Textbook Definition: One of the most successful was Harriet Tubman.

Sentence:Having escaled slavery herself, Tubman courageously returned to the South more than a dozen times between 1850 and 1860, guiding more than 200 men, women, and children to freedom.
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Nat Turner

p. 277-278

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Textbook Definition: The blood slave uprising in the South was organized by Nat Turner, a black preacher, in 1831.

Sentence: Armed with axes and guns, Turner and his followers set out to kill every white person they could find.

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Quilting Bee

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Textbook Definition:A quilting bee was one of the rare times when slave women could gather to work and talk.
 Sentence: During the quilting bee, they were free to express themselves with needle and cloth.

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Congo Square 

p. 280

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Textbook Definition:In New Orleans, hundreds of slaves gathered on Sunday afternoon in a public space known as, "Congo Square" to dance sing and talk. 
 Sentence: The Congo Square could have helped African Americans forget the sorrows of slavery.

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Harnet Powers

p.282

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Textbook Definition:  You can see this combining of cultures in Harriet Powers' story quilt.
Sentence:In square after Powers used African and American animals to illustrate Bible stories that she learned as a slave on a Georgia plantation.
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Oppression

p. 282

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Textbook Definition:The feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force.
 Sentence: They also expressed their oppression, as in this song recorded by Frederick Douglass.

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Br'er Rabbit

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Textbook Definition:The sly hero of many slave tales.
Sentence: The Br'er Rabbit was based on the African trickster Shulo the Hare.
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Richard Allen

p. 271

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Textbook Definition: In 1816, Richard Allen, a former slave, became the first bishop of Afircan American Episcopal Church. (AME)

Sentence: Allen also created organizations to improve the lives of blacks , such as the African Society fo the Education of Youth.

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