Slavery

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Slavery
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Going Downriver

• Cotton Gin 1793
• Closing the Slave Trade 1808
• No slave sales in Washington D.C.
• Indian Removal

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A Slave Market
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Methods of Resistance

• Run Away!
• Maroon communities

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• Harriet Tubman

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Underground Railroad
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Sabotage

• Arson
• Breakage
• Slow work
• Female problems
• Feigned Illness
• Poisoning
• Crop damage
• Animal injuries
• Feigned ignorance or incompetence

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Culture

• Quilts?
• West African stories
• Brer Rabbit,
• Tortoise and the Hare
• Christianityhow?
• Songs
• www.followthedrinkinggourd.org

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• Follow the drinking gourd!For the old man is
  awaiting for to carry you to freedomIf you
  follow the drinking gourd.
• When the sun comes back and the first quail
  calls,Follow the drinking gourd, For the old
  man is awaiting for to carry you to freedomIf
  you follow the drinking gourd.
• The riverbank makes a very good road,The dead
  trees will show you the way,Left foot, peg foot
  traveling on,Following the drinking gourd.
• The river ends between two hills,Follow the
  drinking gourd,There's another river on the
  other side,Follow the drinking gourd.

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Public Appeals

• Speeches, pamphlets, books, newspapers.
• Frederick Douglass
• Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• North Star
• David Walker
• Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World

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• My colour will yet, root some of you out of
  the very face of the earth ! ! ! ! ! ! You may
  doubt it if you please. I know that thousands
  will doubt-they think they have us so well
  secured in wretchedness, to them and their
  children, that it is impossible for such things
  to occur.

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See your Declaration Americans! ! ! Do you
understand your won language? Hear your
languages, proclaimed to the world, July 4th,
1776 -- "We hold these truths to be self evident
-- that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL! ! that they
are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights that among these are life,
liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! !"
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Rebellion

• Nat Turner 1831
• Southampton Co., Virginia
• Travis Family
• Jerusalem

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Consequences of Resistance

• Increased regulation and dehumanization, violence

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Psychological Control and Justification for
Slavery

• Paternalism
• Science (phrenology)
• Northern vs. Southern life
• Wage Slavery
• Weather
• Necessary Evil (peculiar institution)

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Subversion from Within

• Slave Drivers
• Foremen
• House vs. Field Slaves

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Slave Codes

• Slave marriages not legally binding
• No literacy
• No guns
• No practicing medicine
• No testifying in a court case involving a white
  person
• Passes

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Christianity

• Preachers
• Biblical passages
• obey your master
• Hamitic Curse Genesis Chapter 9
• Sons of Noah Ham, Shem, Japheth

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GENESIS 920-25

• Noah was the first tiller of the soil. he planted
  a vineyard and he drank of the wine, and became
  drunk, and lay uncovered in his tent. And Ham,
  the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his
  father, and told his two brothers outside. Then
  Shem and Japhet took a garment, laid it upon both
  their shoulders, and walked backward and covered
  the nakedness of their father their faces were
  turned away, and they did not see their father's
  nakedness. When Noah awoke from his wine and knew
  what his youngest son had done to him, he said,
  "Cursed be Canaan, a slave of slaves shall he be
  to his brothers.
• This is a Biblical justification of slavery