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