1. Slavery and servitude in America

2. Indentured Servitude People who could not afford transport to the New World could borrow the money and pay it back in service (for 5-7 years).

3. Slavery in America

4. This diagram shows how to stuff the maximum number of slaves into a ship. Conditions were disgusting and unhealthy.

5. HowStuffWorks Videos "Assignment Discovery: Slave Ship Captains" HowStuffWorks Videos "Assignment Discovery: Slave Ship Captains"

7. Census Year # Slaves # Free blacks Total blacks % Free blacks Total US population % Blacks of total 1790697,68159,527757,2087.9%3,929,21419% 1800893,602108,4351,002,03710.8%5,308,48319% 18101,191,362186,4461,377,80813.5%7,239,88119% 18201,538,022233,6341,771,65613.2%9,638,45318% 18302,009,043319,5992,328,64213.7%12,860,70218% 18402,487,355386,2932,873,64813.4%17,063,35317% 18503,204,313434,4953,638,80811.9%23,191,87616% 18603,953,760488,0704,441,83011.0%31,443,32114% 187004,880,009 100%38,558,37113% Source:"Distribution of Slaves in US History". http://thomaslegioncherokee.tripod.com/distributionofslavesinunitedstateshistory.html. Retrieved 2010-05-13. "Distribution of Slaves in US History"http://thomaslegioncherokee.tripod.com/distributionofslavesinunitedstateshistory.html

8. The Antebellum (pre-Civil War) South had just over 5 million people. – Only about 10,000 southerners owned more than 50 slaves – Slave make up about 1/3 of the South’s population

9. Key Abolitionist Figures Harriet Tubman Fredrick Douglass William Lloyd Garrison Harriet Beecher Stowe

10. Cotton is King Cotton was difficult to grow and to get the seeds out for sale. The cotton gin made it 100 times faster, and much more profitable.

11. Production rose from 2 million pounds in 1791 to a billion pounds in 1860; by 1840, the United States was producing over 60 percent of the world's cotton. The economic boom in the cotton South attracted migrants, built up wealth among the free inhabitants, encouraged capitalization of investments like railroads, and facilitated territorial expansion.United States Cotton also contributed to the national economy. The crop comprised more than half the total value of domestic exports in the period 1815-1860, and in 1860, earnings from cotton paid for 60 percent of all imports.

12. Slave Rebellions New Orleans 1811 – 450 slaves move across plantations – US Army and Louisiana militia kill 66 slaves, capture more Nat Turner 1831 (Virginia) – Kill 55 whites (men, women, children) – Captured after ammo ran out – No laws passed – no teaching slaves, no meetings, passes needed to go off plantation – Strengthening pro-slavery forces