Section 3, cont. Punishment

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Section 3, cont.Punishment

• Physical (Corporal) Punishment
• Supported in the Bible
• Essential to keep the paternalistic character of
  slavery
• Kept individual slaves under control
• Used as an example to other slaves to keep
  control
• Caused other slaves to work together and protect
  one another

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Louisiana Slave Displays Scars

• In this 1863 photograph a former Louisiana slave
  displays the scars that resulted from repeated
  whippings. Although this degree of scarring is
  exceptional, few slaves were able to avoid being
  whipped at least once in their lives.

Source National Archives and Records
Administration
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The Domestic Slave Trade

• The Cotton Kingdom expands to the South and West
• Upper South sells excess slaves to Lower South
• 50 of Upper South slaves traded during
  Antebellum Period
• Many feared being sold down river
• many slaves in Chesapeake Region escaped

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A Black Father Being Sold Away from His Family

• This woodcut of a black father being sold away
  from his family appeared in The Childs
  Anti-Slavery Book in 1860. Family ruptures, like
  the one shown, were among the more common and
  tragic aspects of slavery, especially in the
  upper South, where masters claimed slavery was
  mild.

Source Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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The Domestic Slave Trade

• Traders operated slave prisons or slave pens
• Baltimore, Richmond (VA), Charleston (SC), New
  Orleans
• Washington DC (one of the largest and near the US
  Capitol)
• Slaves were chained or roped together and then
  walked on foot in coffles

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Slave Pen in Alexandria, VA (1860-1861)
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Slave Pen in Alexandria, VA (1860-1861)
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A Slave Coffle

• Before 1850 Washington, D.C. was a major depot in
  the domestic (or interstate) slave trade. This
  woodcut portrays a slave cofflea group of slaves
  bound togetherpassing the Capitol Building in
  about 1815.

Source Courtesy of the Library of Congress
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Slave Block Where Auctioned Off, New Orleans (18)
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The Domestic Slave Trade

• This business was opposite of the claim that
  slavery was a benign institution
• Description often used by slaveholders

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Section 3 Essential Questions

• Create an essential question from each of the
  headings we are studying
• Punishment
• The Domestic Slave Trade

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Section 3 Essential Questions

• Why was physical punishment so widely used by
  slaveholders?
• What was the domestic slave trade?

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Section 4 Skipping!
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Section 5 The Socialization of Slaves

• Surviving Slavery
• Used folk tales (Brer Rabbit) to teach children
  how to conduct themselves
• Learned to watch what they said around whites
• Learned not to talk back
• Learned to camouflage their feelings
• Turned toward religion

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Religion

• Helped in coping
• Mid-19th century most slaves Protestant
• Biracial Baptist and Methodist churches
• Racially segregated seating
• Shared cemeteries and joined together in
  communion
• Plantation churches told slaves Servants obey
  your masters
• Preferred semi-secret black church
• Moses and deliverance
• Emotional

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Plantation Burial

• British artist John Antrobus completed this
  painting in about 1860. It is named Plantation
  Burial and suggests the importance of religion
  among enslaved African Americans.

Source John Antrobus, Plantation Burial, oil
painting, The Historical New Orleans Collection.
1960.46
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Section 5 Essential Questions

• Create an essential question from the headings we
  are studying
• Surviving Slavery and Religion

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Section 5 Essential Questions

• How did African Americans adapt to life under
  slavery?