Can you name the facts about American slavery?

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What Spanish ship was seized by slaves in 1839?
What anti-slavery novel published in 1852 was the second best-selling book of the century?
What slave unsuccessfully sued for his freedom after entering free territory in an infamous 1857 Supreme Court case?
A slave counted as what fraction of a person according to the U.S. Constitution?
What famous network of safe houses and routes that helped free as many as 100,000 slaves?
What famous abolitionist published 'The Liberator' and burned the U.S. Constitution in 1844?
What African nation began as a colony for freed African American slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in what country?
What town did John Brown carry out his raid on an armory, attempting to arm slaves?
Who was the slave who served on the Lewis & Clark expedition?
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Which slave of Thomas Jefferson likely bore him six children?
What 1820 agreement in Congress prohibited slavery above the 36�30' N parallel?
Which U.S. President said “I am not, nor have ever been, in favor of bringing about…the social and political equality of the white and black races.”
What slave led a rebellion in 1831 that killed 56 people in Virginia?
Which slave was accused in 1822 of conspiring to foment a large slave rebellion in South Carolina?
The successful slave rebellion of which country scared American slaveholders and inspired the enslaved?
Which term refers to the system that brought slaves to the Americas, crops to Europe, and manufactured goods to Africa ?
What term refers to the period of time spent on the slave ship?
What term refers to the series of laws in various colonies that gradually limited slavery to blacks?
What freed slave and abolitionist asked 'What to the slave is the Fourth of July'?
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Slavery in America Quiz

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