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Slavery In America Why did Slavery Develop in New World?  $$ Money made by traders (see p. 43)  Land creates Demand for LABOR in Southern Plantation.

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2 Slavery In America

3 Why did Slavery Develop in New World?  $$ Money made by traders (see p. 43)  Land creates Demand for LABOR in Southern Plantation System  Whitney’s Cotton Gin Demand

4 Triangular Trade Colonial meat, rum, lumber to West Indies & GB West Indies Molasses & Sugar cane to NE Slaves from Africa Manufactures from GB

5 Triangle Trade  Triangular trade Made $$$$ for???? Slave route/distribution map

6 Slave Trade Slavers called their cargo

7 Africans came from the ? coast of the Continent..

8 Middle Passage The trip from Africa to the Americas

9 Middle Passage In their own words….

10 Seasoning Process  Slaves were often taken to the West Indies –to be “seasoned” (learn English, beaten into submission, etc.). Seasoned slaves fetched a higher price…

11 Why were Africans Enslaved?  Race/Color  Religion  Availability  Adaptability to agrarian system

12 Why Was Slavery called The Peculiar Institution?  Eventually it existed in only one part of country-the ???  Not part of English Culture  Limited to one race

13 Slaves Worked as Field Hands… Artisans…. …House Slaves

14 Family Life…DESTROYED Slave Marriages were not legally recognized… Women were encouraged to have children, only to see them sold… (read Northrup’s account of the slave auction)

15 Housing…A study in opposites Laura Plantation- Louisiana

16 Slave Laws Laws…  To punish  To promote and perpetuate racism  To dehumanize (see slave laws in US and Latin America)

17 Slaves’ Reactions to Enslavement or…Escape-Often on the Underground RR …or…. Harriet Tubman aka The Negro Moses

18 Slaves’ Reactions to Enslavement

19 Between 1750-1850, 400 uprisings EX. Nat Turner’s Revolt kills 60 whites, 100 slaves

20 Movements to END Slavery Colonization -Return to Africa Why Fail??

21 Movements to END Slavery Moderate Reform: Stop Spread of Slavery West

22 Movements to END Slavery William Lloyd Garrison & “The Liberator ” Frederick Douglass & “The North Star”

23 Movements to END Slavery Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin William Lovejoy-shot

24 Movements to END Slavery JOHN BROWN’S RAID- Harper’s Ferry, VA

25 Southern Defense of the Peculiar Institution 1.Racial Inferiority 2.Slaves well cared for, happy 3.South didn’t invent slavery, throughout history 4.Slaves better off than factory workers in the North

26 Legacies of 245 years of American Slavery

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