1. Slavery
Slave Trade
and
Rights of Slaves

2. Structure 1. Why Slaves Were Needed? 2. Where Are The Slaves From?
3. What Happened Then?
4. Slaverights
5. Restriction of Slaves
6. Rights of Slaveholders

3. Why Slaves Were Needed? -slavework is cheap
-with the invention of the cotton gin more slaves were used
-South Americas economy was mainly based on cotton

4. Where Are The Slaves From?
From West- to South Africa

5. Where Are The Slaves From?
-Sometimes the Americens bought them for money or they hunted them like wild animals
-Taken by ship to America
-the conditions on the passege were very poor
and many slaves died on the ships

6. What Happened Then? -Slaves were send to the field or to the market
●there were public sales for slaves
-slaves were sold like tools with no concerns for families, relatives, age

7. Slaverights ●practically none
-a black person (African American) is considered to be a slave
●a few were free, but even then had a very low status

8. (Einschränkung)
-in some states it was forbidden to teach slaves how to read
-often they were not allowed to have guns
-slaves could not testify (aussagen) against white people

9. Rights of Slaveholders
-slaveholders were sometimes limited (e.g. beating slaves to extreme) but often could not be found guilty because of missing witnesses

11. Sources http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/wahl.slavery.us
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