SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

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• SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES

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SLAVE TRADE

• AFRICANS WERE BROUGHT IN FROM WEST AFRICA
• SOME BY FORCE, SOME THROUGH TRADE
• ASANTI AND YORUBA WERE ACTIVE SLAVE TRADERS

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SLAVE TRADE

• CONDITIONS DURING THE TRADE-
• UNHEALTHY
• UNSANITARY
• CRAMPED
• MANY STARVED

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TREATMENT

• VARIED FROM OWNER TO OWNER
• SOME TREATED WELL
• SOME WERE ABUSED EXCESSIVELY

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TREATMENT

• FAMILIES WERE TORN APART
• NO READING OR WRITING ALLOWED
• COMMUNICATION SONGS
• SPIRITUALS
• CALL AND RESPONSE

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ABOLITIONIST -

• PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO END SLAVERY IN THE
  U.S.

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ABOLITIONISTS

• WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON - BEGAN THE
  LIBERATOR MAGAZINE
• FREDERICK DOUGLASS - FORMER SLAVE WHO BECAME
  A POWERFUL SPEAKER AGAINST THE EVILS OF
  SLAVERY

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• WAS A SYSTEM OF SECRET TRAILS AND NETWORKS
  THAT HELPED TO FREE HUNDREDS OF SLAVES

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• HARRIET TUBMAN - AN ESCAPED SLAVE WHO LEAD
  THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• CONDUCTOR
• PASSENGER
• STATIONS

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UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

• CONDUCTOR- SOMEONE WHO LEAD SLAVES TO
  FREEDOM
• PASSENGER- A RUNAWAY SLAVE
• STATION- PLACE WHERE SLAVES WOULD HIDE
  UNTIL REACHING THE NORTH