Emancipation and the African American Freedmen s Experience I Slavery in General 1 Old as humanity not Euro American a American Indians raid enemy villages for slaves to replace people who have died loved ones for warfare etc b Romans allowed slaves to buy their freedom c After a set period of time kids won t be slaves d Not based on race The Worldwide History of Slavery 1 Four Unique Characteristics of Euro American Slavery a Economic source b Slaves seen as property in the eyes of the law II have monetary worth c Permanent hereditary d Racially based 2 3 4 Euro American slave trade began in the Caribbean 75 slaves in Caribbean and Brazil produced sugar American slavery inherited from Europe a Virginia 1619 tobacco b First slaves were natives because they knew the land disease 1 Ended because they fought back and c Colonists tried to enslave each other indentured servitude d Switched to African slaves because they were cheap and easy to control III Slavery and the South the Keystone of Southern Society and Culture IV V 1 2 slavery as a source of economic political power slavery and poor whites the social floor a may be poor white trash but at least you re not a slave 3 After the war recreating the slave system without slavery 75 southern whites don t own slaves 4 4 million slaves in the south Mostly deep south 5 The End of Slavery and the Beginning of Freedom Now What 1 2 3 4 5 Want to live a normal American life Searching for family Schools and education Establishing Churches Entering Politics a School education from Freedman s Bureau b Established black colleges c Want jobs d Want to live the 1865 American Dream have a farm grow enough for your family and maybe have some left over to sell The Problem of Making a Living the Rise of Sharecropping 1 The Freedmen s dream independent yeoman farming a Nothing But Freedom no longer slaves but no land forced to work for old owners leads to share cropping b Resistance to Black Codes and the Old Plantation c How to make a living to get it 2 White plantation owners need cheap labor How 3 4 Northerners want to help former slaves 40 acres and a mule a Seen as too radical in the south Solution the Sharecropping System a benefits both parties although whites get the better end of the deal b Freedmen supply labor white owners supply equipment tools all profits split 50 50 in theory c The Problem of Debt Peonage and the sharecropping trap Final Thought if the North had had more willpower would Reconstruction have ended differently
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