Slave trade

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  • The slave trade was the largest forced migration in history, with over 12 million Africans being taken to the Americas between the 16th and 19th centuries.
  • Nat Turner was a slave who led a rebellion in Virginia in 1831 because he said "I was never meant to be a slave"
  • Nat Turner was born in 1800 in Virginia, USA and died in 1831 in Virginia, USA
  • Harriet Tubman was a slave who helped other slaves to escape to the North America
  • Frederic douglas was born in 1832 in Canada and died in 1916 in the USA
  • The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes used by African American slaves to escape to freedom.
  • Harriet Tubman was born in 1820 in Maryland and died in 1913 in Auburn, New York
  • frederic douglass was a slave who taught himself how to read and write and wrote a book about his life as a slave even thought it was illegal for slaves to have education
  • the rebellion of Nat Turner in 1831 lead to the goverment to make illegal the education of slaves
  • conductors were people who were helping the slaves escape from south to north of america
  • harriet tubman escaped slavery when she was 14 years old and then went back to free her family members
  • frederic douglass wrote a book called "Narrative of the life of frederick douglass" in 1845 when he was 12
  • Nat Turner rebellion killed over, 120 people enslaved and white Americans. Nat Turner was arrested and executed
  • Nat Turner's rebellion killed 60 white people including men, women and children by Nat.T
  • Harriet Tubman helped more than 300 slaves escape through the underground railroad.
  • After Nat.T rebellion black people in the USA were not allowed to vote, be educated and lost the right to a fair trial
  • Rebellion is a form of resistance