1. Business
Reforms test:
B- Wednesday April 26
H- Thursday April 27

2. Review
1800s Changes / Reforms

3. What defined the institution of slavery?
What was life like during slavery in the South?

4. Key Slavery Ideas / Vocabulary
Indentured servitude- pay employer through work
Atlantic Slave Trade- Africa, Caribbean, North America
Variety of slavery
African, European, Egyptian
Native American
American slavery- ~

5. Questions about slavery
Why didn’t they fight back?
Some did (mostly unsuccessfully)
Fear, weakness, morale
How could this happen? What were slavers thinking?
Money (free labor, more profit)
Religion/ “Science”
“they’re just different,” “this is how it is supposed to be”
Racism
Tradition

6. Free African Americans
In North, had opportunities
Military, settle in West, writing, etc
Faced great discrimination
No voting, could not sit on juries, segregation
Fear of returning / being placed in slavery

7. Slavery in the South Cotton important crop, but hard to harvest
1793- Eli Whitney’s cotton gin
Removed seeds from cotton
Cheap, easy

8. Cotton in the South
Cotton the key to Southern prosperity in 1790s-1840 ($$$$$$)
Increase of demand for cotton led to increase of need for workers
Perfect for slavery- took all year

9. Life for Slaves Simple, but enough food and clothes Single room cabins
Affect of cotton gin:
Fewer slaves freed (laws)
More slaves bought/kept
Slaves worked harder
Moved West (against will)

10. The South and the “Peculiar Institution”
Southerners convinced slavery was necessary
Their way of life
“Slavery is good for slaves too”
Debates raged between pro and anti- slavery beliefs

11. Unhappiness with Slavery
American Colonization Society- send freed slaves to Africa (Liberia)
Most freed African Americans did not agree
People want change, abolition
In the United States

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16. Slavery debate Read texts (ask questions)
Answer questions based on readings / images