Slavery DOC
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FROM SLAVERY TO CIVIL RIGHTS
1619 - 1965
- Slavery in America
The History of Slavery in America (part 1 of 3) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jc1RbUxQv4E
The History of Slavery in America (part 2 of 3)
The History of Slavery in America (part 3 of 3)
- The beginning of slavery.
Slaves | Where did they come from ? From Africa | Arrival in America : (city and date) Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 | Jobs ? Works in Cotton Fields or in the house of the master. | Prohibitions ? Prohibited from participating in lawsuits from owning, firearms, possessing alcohol. Often, they cant learning and they can’t married. | Ways to escape / resist slavery ? -religion :Christianity -music : gospel - spirituality - Story of older generations |
Owners | Who are they ? White people They are American,French, British and Portuguese | What type of slaves did they select ? They selected some strong and healthy males and females between 18-35, children were too captured |
- Define the word slave in your own words.
A slave is someone who must forced from all age, work so many hours for people and doing his tasks. A slave has no right to a vacation or other. A slave can’t be maried or have a propriety.
- Where did some slaves’ revolts take place?
In 1831, in South Hampton Virginia, Nat Turner, a slave, take place in the revolt with other slaves and killed the master and plantation’s owner and his family.
- Abolitionist’s movements.
Abolitionists | Black or white? Both colors W&B | Example of people William Lloyd Garrison Frederic Douglas Sojourner Truth | Arguments against slavery? The slavery is unchristian and immoral for their | Action to free slaves? William Lloyd Garrison has published “The Liberator”; “the leading” and his slavery newspaper of the day |
Underground railroad | Black or white? Only Black people | Actions Hide slave who runaway in their homes and conduct them to the next station: Our safe house to reach the free North | Harriet Tubman. List the information given. Having escaped from a Maryland plantation in 1849, she know all the road. She hided places and depot used to conduct runaways to freedom in the North. She sang traditional slave spirituals to avoid suspicions. She’s brave, wise and kind. | Ways to protect herself. She packed a revolver to protect herself, she also extended her underground railroad trail to St Catherine’s in Canada |
- Dred Scott case and John Brown
Dred Scott | Slave or not? He was a slave. | What did he do? He brought suit against his owner. | Arguments free him He had legally become emancipated because he travelling thought a free soil state of Illinois | Arguments against freeing him His a black man, not an American citizen, the laws is not available for Dred. |
John Brown | Slave or not? Wasn’t a slave | Pacifist? No, is opposed a the other abolitionists | What were is ambitions? Who decided to follow him? He wants to free southern slaves with an armed intervention and attack the slave-owning. Harriet Tubman join Brown. | What happened to him? He was captured by federal authorities and hang. |
- DIFFERENCES AND CONFLICTS BETWEEN THE NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN STATES LEAD TO THE CIVIL WAR
Who was elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860
Was he in favour of against slavery?
He was against slavery
What did he do? What was the consequence?
He opposed the expansion of slavery and win thought the south into revolt and emancipation proclamation. Seven States had seceded from the Union, and creating The Confederate state of America.
North or South? | Pro or anti-slavery? | |
The Union | North | Anti-Slavery |
The Confederate | South | Pro |
- What were the differences between the Northern States and the Southern States in the XIXth century ?
Northern states versus Southern states
https://www.civilwar.org/learn/articles/north-and-south
https://jubiloemancipationcentury.wordpress.com/2015/07/11/the-demographics-and-geography-of-free-blacks-north-south-east-west/
Northern States | |||
Population | White or black? White and Black | Slaves or free? Free | Proportion of free people compared to the south : Between 1 million and 4 millions free people in the North and between 80k -1 million In the south 46 .1% |
Major cities | Where? St Louis (Missouri) Chicago (Illinois) Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Louisville (Kentucky), Cincinnati (Ohio) Detroit (Michigan) Cleveland (Ohio) Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) Buffalo, Rochester, Albany (New York) Washington D.C/ Baltmore/Philadelphia/ Newark/ New York City/ Brooklyn/Providence/ Boston | ||
Economy | Based on ? Manufacturing and railroads |
Produced textiles, materials (steel and iron), weapons and other supplies |
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