Slavery in Antebellum America By Rosie B. and Deirdre M.

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Slavery in Antebellum AmericaBy Rosie B. and
Deirdre M.

• "I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with
  moderation. . . . I am in earnest -- I will not
  equivocate -- I will not excuse -- I will not
  retreat a single inch -- AND I WILL BE HEARD.
• -William Lloyd Garrison of The Liberator

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Abolitionism

• Quakers
• Gradualism Immediate emancipation
• Underground railroad
• Opposition for economic reasons

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Missouri Compromise (1820 - 1821)

• The Missouri Compromise consisted of measures
  passed by the U.S. Congress to end the first of a
  series of crises concerning the extension of
  slavery.
• It prohibited slavery in the former Louisiana
  Territory north of the parallel 3630 north
  except within the boundaries of the proposed
  state of Missouri.
• Prior to the agreement, the House of
  Representatives had refused to accept this
  compromise and a conference committee was
  appointed. The United States Senate refused to
  concur in the amendment, and the whole measure
  was lost.

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American Antislavery Society

• Founded in 1833 by Theodore Weld, Arthur Tappan,
  and Lewis Tappan
• Lectures on the brutality and immorality of
  slavery
• Mix of black and white members
• Preached immediate emancipation
• Leadership passed to William Lloyd Garrison in
  1840
• Split because of Garrisons radical views

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Eli Whitney (December 8, 1765 January 8, 1825)

• Eli Whitney was an American inventor best known
  for inventing the cotton gin.
• The cotton gin was one of the key inventions of
  the Industrial Revolution and shaped the economy
  of the antebellum South.
• Whitney's invention made short staple cotton into
  a profitable crop, which strengthened the
  economic foundation of slavery.
• King Cotton was a phrase frequently used by
  Southern politicians and authors prior to the
  American Civil War, indicating the economic and
  political importance of cotton production.
• Whitney also saw the potential benefit of
  developing interchangeable parts for the firearms
  of the United States military, and thus, around
  1798, he built ten guns, all containing the same
  exact parts and mechanisms, and disassembled them
  before the United States Congress.

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Tariff of 1828

• The Tariff of 1828, was a protective tariff
  passed by the Congress of the United States on
  May 19, 1828 designed to protect industry in the
  northern United States.
• It was labeled the Tariff of Abominations by its
  southern detractors because of the effects it had
  on the antebellum Southern economy and led to the
  Nullification Crisis.
• The Nullification Crisis was caused by South
  Carolina wanting to protect their farming
  industry, which required slave labor and caused
  the threat of succession in the South.
• The Tariff of 1828 had been purposely drafted to
  make Andrew Jackson appear as a free trade
  advocate in the South and as a protectionist in
  the North.

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Sojourner Truth(1797-1883)

• Born Isabella Baumfree in slavery and sold
  several times
• Escaped after being double crossed by her master
• Very religious
• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth A Northern
  Slave
• Aint I a woman

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Peculiar Institution

• Peculiar Institution was a euphemism for
  slavery and the economic ramifications of it in
  the American South.
• The meaning of "peculiar" in this expression is
  "one's own", that is, referring to something
  distinctive to or characteristic of a particular
  place or people.
• It was in popular use during the first half of
  the 19th century, especially in legislative
  bodies, as the word slavery was deemed
  "improper," and was actually banned in certain
  areas.

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Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

• Escaped slave
• Mostly self taught
• Lectured for the Massachusetts Antislavery
  society
• The North Star
• Worked for equal opportunity for all

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Nat Turner and Denmark Vesey

• Nathaniel "Nat" Turner was an American slave who
  led a slave rebellion in Virginia on August 21,
  1831 that resulted in fifty-six deaths among
  their victims, the largest number of white
  fatalities to occur in one uprising in the
  antebellum southern United States. Around 100
  innocent slaves were killed in retaliation.
• Denmark Vesey originally Telemaque, was an
  African American slave brought to the United
  States from the Caribbean. After purchasing his
  freedom, he planned what would have been one of
  the largest slave rebellions in the United
  States.
• Gabriel Denmark Vesey and Nat Turner influenced
  the Northern abolitionist movement by passing
  laws to restrict the slave trade.

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David Walker --- A possible rebellion!?

• African American abolitionist
• Born free but saw the injustices of slavery
• Slaves should resort to violence if necessary
• Walkers Appeal
• Pride and hope for slaves
• Fear for planters
• Most abolitionists disagreed with Walkers views

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States Rights and Free African Americans

•  Secession was based on the idea of state rights
  (or "states rights," a variant that came into use
  after the Civil War). This exalted the powers of
  the individual states as opposed to those of the
  Federal government. It generally rested on the
  theory of state sovereignty, that in the United
  States the ultimate source of political authority
  lay in the separate states. Associated with the
  principle of state rights was a sense of state
  loyalty that could prevail over a feeling of
  national patriotism. Before the war, the
  principle found expression in different ways at
  different times, in the North as well as in the
  South. During the war it reappeared in the
  Confederacy.
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Harriet Tubman (1819-1913)

• Born Araminta Ross in slavery
• Escaped to Philadelphia in 1849
• Became a conductor on the Underground Railroad
• Made 19 trips and never lost a passenger
• Known by the slaves as Moses

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Slave Codes

• Slave codes were laws which each US state, or
  colony, enacted which defined the status of
  slaves and the rights of masters. Such codes gave
  slave-owners absolute power over their human
  property.

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William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879)

• Author of the famous abolitionist newspaper, The
  Liberator
• "immediate and complete emancipation of all
  slaves".
• 5000 offered in Georgia for his arrest and
  conviction
• Supported womens rights, pacifism, and
  temperance, as well
• Stopped publishing The Liberator after the Civil
  War

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The American Colonization Society

• The American Colonization Society (in full, The
  Society for the Colonization of Free People of
  Color of America) was the primary vehicle for
  proposals to return free African Americans to
  what was considered greater freedom in Africa. It
  helped to found the colony of Liberia in 182122
  as a place for freedmen.

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The Liberty Party

• Founded in 1840 by the branch of the American
  antislavery society who disagreed with Garrison
• Wanted to elect leaders who shared their
  antislavery beliefs
• Was nonexistent by 1848

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