1. Slavery

2. Slavery Review First ones arrive 1619.
Barbados slaves codes brought to South Carolina.
Leads to massive Racism.
Imported in large numbers following:
Bacons Rebellion-1676
Invention of Cotton Gin- 1790
Compromise of the Constitution
3/5, Slave Trade
Uprisings-
Denmark Versey- 1820
Stono River Rebellion- 1739

3. Wealth= Cotton
Cotton provide wealth for the North as well as the South.
50% of the worlds cotton comes from the south
50% of American exports is cotton
75% of cotton in British mills came from the South
1/3 of British workers in cotton industry
South always thought they had a healthy economy and that the British would support them
Abolition gained momentum slowly
South Hated it…DUH
North also hated it at first- Northern Banks owed 300,000,000 by Southern growers

4. Problems with the Southern Economy
Economy is monopolistic
1733 families that owned over 100 slaves- Control Everything, creating an oligarchy
Soil Butchery- One crop at a time
Leads to western expansion= more of one crop
Non-Diversification
All the wealth in cotton = No Factories = Dependence on North and Brits
Most wealth is in cotton and land= overspeculation
1860- Southern Slaves worth- 2 billion
North gets most profit from Cotton
No white immigration

5. Free Blacks known as 3rd race
North 250,000 free blacks
Could not do much, highly discriminated against
*Could be sold back into slavery*

6. Why Abolition? SGA (FIGHT EARTHLY EVIL)
British emancipate slaves in West Indies-1833 (Carnival)
Theodore Dwight Weld – Tappan Brothers fund Lane Theological Seminary
Writes “American Slavery as it is” (1852)
4. Influences Harriet Beecher Stowe- Uncle Toms Cabin

7. Paranoid Much? The South begins to develop a Siege Mentality
Feel they are under attack, Abolition does not help (1830)
William Lloyd Garrison
The Liberator (abolitionist newspaper)
American Anti- Slavery Society (1833)
Tariff =- SC Exposition
Tariff of abominations- 45% %
Compromise Tariff (1833)- 25% over 8 years
**SIEGE MENTALITY BECAUSE IF THE GOV CAN PASS A HUGE TARIFF WHAT IS STOPPING THEM FROM ENDING SLAVERY

8. 3. Nat Turners Rebellion Slaves killed 60 Whites- mostly woman and children Previous rebellions led to it Effect- More harsh slave codes, south becomes even more paranoid

9. Why Northerners Hate Abolitions
Northern textiles depend on Southern Cotton
South Owes Northern Banks 300 million
**Economic Blackmail**
Gag Resolutions 1836
Congress will no speak of any resolutions against slavery
John Q Adams fights against it

10. Abolition- Against Slavery
2 types of Abolition
Elijah Lovejoy- Martyr Abolitionist
Leads to Free Soil Party (1848) and Liberty Party (1840)
Gradual
Radical
Gradual emancipation
Calls for compensation
Tallmadge Amendment (Mizzu)
Free Soil Party
Immediate end to slavery without compensation
Leads to Violence
Liberty Party

11. Abolition Radical used Moral Persuasion
David Walker- “Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World”
Lyceum Association
Liberator Garrison
Uncle Toms Cabin
SGA, Revivals, Anti- Slavery Society
Black Abolitions- Sojourner Truth, Davis Walker, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass Narrative of Fredrick Douglass