GROWTH OF SLAVERY

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GROWTH OF SLAVERY

• HOW SLAVERY DIVIDED OUR NATION

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350 YEARS OF SLAVERY

• PRE-REVOLUTIONARY
• ALL MEN CREATED EQUAL
• 3/5ths COMPROMISE
• COTTON GIN
• EXPLOSION OF GROWTH

• REVOLTS
• MO. COMPROMISE
• TX/MEXICAN WAR
• ABOLITION
• COMPROMISE OF 1850
• KS/NE ACT OF 1854
• DRED SCOTT
• JOHN BROWN

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PRE-REVOLUTIONARY WAR SLAVERY

• DISCOVERY OF NEW WORLD
• INDIANS FIRST
• TRIANGULAR TRADE MOLASSAS TO RUM TO SLAVES
• NORTH SOUTH IDEAOLOGY

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Loose Pack v Tight Pack
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ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL?

• DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
• MORAL DILEMMA
• CHANCE TO SOLVE THE ISSUE ONCE AND FOR ALL

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3/5ths COMPROMISE

• CONSTITUTION
• PROPERTY

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COTTON GIN

• ELI WHITNEY AND MASS PRODUCTON
• SEPERATE SEEDS
• INCREASE OF COTTON PRODUCTION
• NEGATIVE EFFECTS

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EXPLOSION OF GROWTH
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EXPLOSION OF GROWTH
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SLAVE REBELLIONS

• GABRIEL PROSSER (1800)
• DENMARK VESSEY (1821-1822)
• NAT TURNER (1831)
• TOUGHER SLAVE LAWS

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Thomas Jefferson

• In the gloomiest moment of the revolutionary
  war, I never had any (fears) equal to what I feel
  from this source... Every new irritation will
  make it deeper and deeper... We have a wolf by
  the ears, and we can neither hold him nor safely
  let him go. 1820

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MISSOURI COMPROMISE (1821)

• DESIRE FOR STATEHOOD 1819
• TALLMADGE AMENDMENT
• BALANCE OF POWER
• MAINE APPLIES

• HENRY CLAY
• EXPANSION OF SLAVERY?
• COMPROMISE
• 36 30
• WHO BENEFITTED?
• PREDICT THE FUTURE

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TEXAS / MEXICAN WAR

• EXPANSION
• ALAMO
• WAR WITH MEXICO
• CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
• GROWTH OF SLAVERY?
• LAND WON OR STOLEN?
• GADSDEN PURCHASE OF 1853

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COMPROMISE OF 1850

• MANIFEST DESTINEY
• CALIFORNIA 1849 AND STATEHOOD
• MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• HENRY CLAY
• FUGITIVE SLAVE LAW OF 1850
• NORTH AND SOUTH HAPPY???

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ABOLITIONIST MOVEMENT

• AGAINIST SLAVERY
• WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON THE LIBERATOR, and THE
  ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY
• FREDRICK DOUGLASS

• UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
• UNCLE TOMS CABIN
• HARRIOTT TUBMAN
• SOJOURNER TRUTH

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Slave Whipping and Abuse
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KANSAS AND NEBRASKA ACT OF 1854

• TERRITORIES
• RAILROADS!!
• SLAVERY?? YES OR NO?
• MISSOURI COMPROMISE
• STEPHEN DOUGLAS
• POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY
• OTHER MOTIVES?

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DRED SCOTT

• SLAVE
• LIVED IN FREE TERRITORIES
• SOLD TO AN ABOLITIONIST
• SUES FOR FREEDOM
• SUPREME COURT
• FREEDOM DENIED

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Dred Scott

• Roger B. Taney-Chief Justice of U.S. Supreme
  Court
• Slaves are property
• A slave owner can take his property anywhere he
  goes.
• Violation of 4th Amendment Rights
• Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional!

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JOHN BROWN

• WHO IS JOHN BROWN?
• BLEEDING KANSAS
• POTOWATAMIE CREEK
• HARPERS FERRY
• CAPTURE TRIAL
• REPERCUSSIONS

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Lincoln/Douglas Debates

• Illinois Senate Seat
• Douglas wants to run for President 1860
• Series of Debates
• Lincoln starts slow but gains strength
• Douglas wins election, but Lincoln gains national
  recognition

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Abraham Lincoln 1858

• In my opinion, it will not cease until a crisis
  shall have been reached and passed. A house
  divided against itself cannot stand. I believe
  this government cannot endure permanently half
  slave and half free. I do not expect the house
  to failbut I do expect it will cease to be
  divided

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Election of 1860
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Election 1860

• Abraham Lincoln---Republican
• Stephen Douglas---Northern Democrat
• John C. Breckinridge-Southern Democrat
• John BellConstitutional Union Party
• Democrats and Bell split their support allowing
  Lincoln to win! Did not win a single southern
  state!

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The South Secedes

• President Buchanan does little to stop the
  movement
• Dec. 20, 1860 South Carolina leads the way
  followed by MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX.
• Form the Confederate States of America

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States Rights

• Slavery is our way of life
• We have a right to determine what is best for
  our state
• We dont interfere with what you do in the
  North, so dont interfere with us in the South
• States Rights is the real issue, but slavery will
  be the driving mechanism of this conflict known
  as the U.S. Civil War

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Sources

• Isabelle Aguet, A Pictorial History of the Slave
  Trade (Geneva, Editions Minerva, 1971), plate 64,
  p.71 original source not identified
• Published in Anthony Tibbles (ed.), Transatlantic
  Slavery Against Human Dignity (London HMSO,
  1994), p. 154, fig. 140.

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Sources

• afrocityblog.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/slav...