1. Slavery in the US and Southern Vs Northern Economy

2. Origins of American Slavery
Begins with the first European explorers in the 1500’s
The slave trade increased from West Africa by FR, PRTG, SPN, and GB for labor on their colonies.
By American independence (1776) slavery was established in the American South
By 1807 slave trade from Africa was made illegal by the British and US

3. Discuss
What was something from the video that you were not aware of or learned more about?

4. The Cotton Gin
Invented by Eli Whitney in connections to the industrial revolution and the demand for Cotton textiles
slave owners put more slave to work in the field.
South became a one crop industry on slavery as their means of labor.

5. The Cotton Economy Large plantations of Cotton
Provided Cotton to Europe and Northern textiles
White elite families owned hundreds of slaves
Poor whites often were foremen and managed the slave labor

6. Northern vs Southern Economy
Industrial Growth
Manufacturing
Overcrowding
Mass Transportation
Used immigrants as cheap labor
By 1821 Northern states had abolished slavery
South
Cash crop
Cotton Plantation
Slave labor
Relied on North and trade with England
Imported manufactured goods
Land = Wealth only fraction of whites owned land

7. White Board
What was one advantage both the North had over the South and the one the South had over the North?

8. Conditions of Slaves Slaves were property with no rights
Slaves could be beaten or killed with no punishment
Families could be separated and sold
Only day off was Sunday
Lashing for not meeting quotas
High levels of sexual abuse by masters to slave women

9. Violent Resistance
Over 250 rebellions and uprisings in colonial and US history
Nat Turners Revolt 1831
8 blacks led by Nat Turner started by killing their master and his family in Virginia
Went from 8 blacks to 70 in only 3 days
Killed around 58 white people
Led to great fear of slave uprising
Uprisings were violently ended and all involved were executed

10. John Brown Abolitionist Participated in underground Railroad
Was an organization which helped escaped slaves.
Led attack on Pro Slavary groups

11. Discuss
Assess why punishments for slaves made public and so violent?

12. Peaceful resistance Underground Railroad- Dred Scott sues for freedom
Series of safe homes leading runaway slaves to safety
Dred Scott sues for freedom
He believed the was free due to the fact that his master moved to Free territory. lived in territories that were free.(Missouri)
Supreme Court Decision 1857
Blacks are not citizens and could not legally sue
Slaves were property and could be moved as property to different areas
Day to day resistance
Breaking property
Acting sick
Sabotaging work

13. Abolitionist Others took economic approach
First to challenge slavery
Some suggestion of Sending Blacks back to Africa
Others wanted incorporation into American Society
Some cited Bible and Declaration of Independence
believed U.S. was as much home to black people as it was to white people
Others took economic approach
unfair advantage of slave labor

14. Pro Slavery Argument
States should have the right to choose not Fed Government
Ending Slavery would destroy the Southern Economy
Slavery was the only way to run a plantation system
Freeing slaves would mean a loss of valuable property
Blacks were not citizens and could not be equal to whites
Ending of slavery was a threat to the freedom of white Americans.
Slaves would take their jobs
Abolitionist meetings were broken up, their presses destroyed and congress often refused to receive their petitions

15. Discuss
Discuss the flaws in the Pro Slavery argument points.

16. Fredrick Douglass Abolitionist
“ Who would be free themselves must strike the blow… I urge you to fly to arms and smite to death the power that would bury the government and your liberty in the same hopeless grave. This is your golden opportunity.”
Wanted slavery to be eliminated immediately
Asked to tour and give lectures for anti-slavery
First great black speaker
Editor of The North Star major Abolitionist Newspaper
Urged for use of African American soldiers in the Civil War

17. William Lloyd Garrison Abolitionist
“ I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation… I am an earnest—I will not equivocate—I will not excuse—I will not retreat a single inch– AND I WILL BE HEARD”
“The Liberator” read for more than three decades
Slavery be eliminated immediately

18. Harriet Beecher Stowe
who published the bestselling antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852).
Brought the violence of slavery in the south to the masses
Helped push the Abolitionist movement

19. White board and discuss
Does the history of slavery in the US still affect Americans? Discuss and support your answer.

20. Political and Economic issue of Slavery and Blacks in America
Slavery was political issue when territorial problems arose
More land West- Slave or Free?
Growing fears of labor competition for white workers and farmers because of the growing number of free blacks prompted several northern states to adopt Black Codes
Though many northern wanted an end of slavery they did not view Blacks as equals
Slave states and Free states wanted more slave states to expand power in congress