Daniela Masiariková Oktáva 2010/2011
Slavery The American Civil War Abolitionism Antislavery societies Abolitionists Ku Klux Klan
- Americans whose ancestors were born in Africa 17th century – the first Africans in America
Beginning in Virginia Spread to areas with good-quality soil for large plantations one of the principal issues leading to the American Civil War
At first: baptized slave is free then: slaves = property without any rights value of the slave = 3/5 value of citizen
1861 – 1865 North x South flashpoint of conflict: Republican Abraham Lincoln was elected in the presidential election
advanced trade with Europe and Asia industrial – factory production (metallurgy, steel, cotton textile industry) antislavery
backward agriculture - plantations (tabacco, rice, cotton, coffee, sugarcane) profiting from the labour of slaves (350,000 slave owners owned 4,000,000 slaves) slavery
Union was disintegrated South created a new polity - Confederation States of America - president Jefferson Davis - capital city Richmond 1865 – the end of the war - South capitulated
a movement, which makes an effort to repeal any law or regulation abolition of slavery: the federal government - prohibited slavery in the Northewest territory in banned the trans-Atlantic slave trade in 1808 Quakers (The Religious Society of Friends)
During the 1830s – trying to reach and convert a mass audience Antislavery society: The African Colonization Society (1816) – Liberia The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)
William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator Frederick Douglass William Wells Brown John Brown
President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which declared freedom and liberation of black slaves in Union The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished the slavery, became part of the Constitution and slavery was eliminated of all States of the Union
in the south established in against the emancipation of slaves advocated extremist reactionary currents (white supremacy, racism, anti-immigration, anti-semitism) violence against blacks (hanging) reformed in 1915 by William J. Simmons
htm karstvi-v-usa-temna-stranka-historie.html SOCHROVÁ, Marie. Dějepis v kostce II. Havlíčkův Brod: FRAGMENT, 1999