AP African American Studies / Unit 2: Freedom, Enslavement, and Resistance

2.4 African Resistance on Slave Ships and the Antislavery Movement

3 practice questions

Notes

Captives resisted on ships through revolts, hunger strikes and jumping overboard. The Amistad revolt (1839) led to a US Supreme Court case freeing the captives. Olaudah Equiano's narrative (1789) helped the British abolition movement.

Practice

The Amistad case ended with:

Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative helped:

Resistance on slave ships included:

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