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The Lives of Freed Slaves

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antebellum
before or existing before the war, especially the American Civil War
Great Migration
movement of 6 million blacks out of Southern US from 1910 to 1970
Fifteenth Amendment
1870; prohibiting restriction of voting rights based on citizen's race
Freedom's Journal
first black-owned newspaper, appeared in 1827
Frederick Douglass
U.S. ex-slave, abolitionist, and orator
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Black church
Christian churches that minister mostly to African-American congregations
Crispus Attucks
American patriot, probably fugitive slave, killed in Boston Massacre
emancipation
broad term describing efforts to obtain political rights or equality
Quaker
religious Society of Friends; important to the underground railroad
underground railroad
system for helping fugitive slaves escape into places of safety
Thirteenth Amendment
amendment to US Constitution, ratified 1865, abolishing slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
1863; freeing slaves in territories still rebelling against the Union
freedom suits
legal petitions filed to gain release from slavery
Back-to-Africa movement
19th C. US movement encouraging return to African homelands
discrimination
distinction based on group, class, or category rather than individual merit
racism
idea that one's own race is superior and has the right to rule others
Dred Scott Decision
black slave suit for freedom (1857) denied by the U.S. Supreme Court
reconstruction
process by which seceded states reentered the Union after the Civil War
Jim Crow
policy of segregating against blacks, in public places or employment
Booker T. Washington
U.S. reformer, educator, author, and lecturer
Ku Klux Klan
secret organization in southern US, to suppress rights of blacks
W. E. B. Du Bois
US sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author
Niagara Movement
black civil rights organization 1905; Du Bois and William Monroe Trotter
Freedmen's Bureau
agency of the War Department set up in 1865 to assist freed slaves

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