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Slave Accoutrements

Anti-Slavery Pamphlet

Slave Master Brands

Slave Auction: Charleston, SC-1856

Slave Accoutrements

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Slave muzzle

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Slave leg irons

Slave tag, SC

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Slave shoes

Slave Auction Notice, 1823

Slave-Owning Population (1850)

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Slaves Working in a Sugar-Boiling House, 1823

Slave-Owning Families (1850)

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“Hauling the Whole Week’s Pickings” William Henry Brown, 1842

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Slaves posing in front of their cabin on a Southern plantation.

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Value of Cotton Exports

As % of All US Exports

A Slave Family

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U.S. Constitution:

Changes in Cotton Production

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Fugitive Slave Act of 1793

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

1820

US Laws Regarding Slavery

  • Three - Fifths Clause
  • Fugitive Slave Clause (Article 4, Section 2

1860

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/fugitive-slave-acts

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Slaves Using the Cotton Gin

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Slaves Picking Cotton on a Mississippi Plantation

Slave Resistance

  • Refusal to work hard.
  • Isolated acts of sabotage.
  • Escape via the Underground Railroad.

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Early Emancipation in the North

Southern Agriculture

Runaway Slave Ads

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Southern Population

Quilt Patterns as Secret Messages

The Monkey Wrench pattern, on the left, alerted escapees to gather up tools and prepare to flee;

the Drunkard Path design, on the right, warned escapees not to follow a straight route.

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Southern Society (1850)

Slave Rebellions in the Antebellum South: Nat Turner, 1831

“Slavocracy”

[plantation owners]

6,000,000

The “Plain Folk”

[white yeoman farmers]

Free Blacks

250,000

Black Slaves 3,200,000

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http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/nat-turner

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Total US Population  23,000,000 [9,250,000 in the South = 40%]

Missouri Compromise, 1820

The Culture of Slavery

  • Black Christianity [Baptists or Methodists]:
  • more emotional worship services.
  • negro spirituals.
  • “Pidgin” or Gullah languages.
  • Nuclear family with extended kin links, where possible.
  • Importance of music in their lives. [esp. spirituals].

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/education/history.html

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Southern Pro-Slavery Propaganda

contrast with

Abolitionism

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/abolitionist-movement

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Slavery and the Antebellum South

United States History

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