AFRICANS AFRICAN AMERICANS SLAVERY AS A RACIALLY BASED ECONOMIC SYSTEM LABOR FORCE THE TRANS ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE ORIGINS TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE WEST AFRICAN TO AMERICAS AMERICAS TO EUROPE EUROPE TO WEST AFRICA WEST AFRICA TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE 1 MARCH TO THE COAST KRUMEN 2 SLAVE FORT 3 MIDDLE PASSAGE 4 SLAVE AUCTION 5 SEASONING SLAVERY IN THE UNITED STATES 1 COTTON GIN Invented in 1794 By Eli whitney 2 LOUISIANA PURCHASE INTERSTATE SLAVE TRADE TOBACCO Upper South Maryland Tennessee 1803 Thomas jefferson purchases land doubles the size of the U S 3 TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE ENDS ILLEGAL 1807 Virginia Lower South Alabama Mississippi Louisiana florida THE PLANTATION STATISTICS BY 1860 5 of the white population owned slaves 3 95 million slaves 12 of the population 86 of slaves lived and worked on a farm of plantation 11 were mulatto One drop rule Tallahassee THE PLANTATION GANG LABOR V TASK LABOR COTTON RICE DEEP SOUTH LOW COUNTRY SUN UP TO SUN DOWN FREE TIME THE PLANTATION DAILY LIFE Work Field domestic Lesiure Food Worship faith Family Brutality Floggings Rape Slave codes V PASSIVE slow down fake illness play dumb RESISTANCE ACTIVE Running Away Revolt Theft Poison Arson Break tools Suicide THE SECTIONAL CRISIS ABOLITIONISM 2 of the north spoke out against slavery FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT OF 1850 If you find a runaway slave and return it you get a large sum of money BLEEDING KANSAS Kansas nebraska act CHARLES SUMNER INCIDENT JOHN BROWN S RAID Harper s ferry Virginia Led a slave revolt in Virginia 1859 ELECTION OF 1860 FROM UNITED STATES THEY SPILT SECESSION SECESSION CRISIS 1861 CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY WHEN ABRAHAM LINCOLN IS AFFECT SOUTH IS VERY MAD SUCCEED HE ONLY LOST 30 OF THE VOTE BUT THE SOUTH HAD 3 CANDIDATES SO PHASE 1 EARLY STRATEGY WANTS THE SOUTHERN STATES TO COME BACK TELLS THEM IF THEY COME BACK THEY CAN HAVE THEIR SLAVES PHASE 2 ATTACK ON THE HEART OF THE SOUTH EMANICAPATION PROCLAMATION JANUARY 1 1863 PHASE 3 HARD BALL Enlistment of black troops 186 000 CIVIL WAR AMENDMENTS 13 AMENDMENT o Slavery is abolished 14 AMENDMENT o Due process o Equality for blacks TH TH TH 15 AMENDMENT o Gives black men the right to vote RECONSTRUCTION 1865 1876 Goals o 4 million freed slaves o Find their family o Find jobs o Get an education o FREEDMAN S BUREAU o OLIVER OTIS HOWARD o organization to aid in the relief and resettlement of newly freed SLAves REDEMPTION 1877 1896 o 1877 reconstruction is declared over o Southern whites regain control o Control over Economic political education religion o Sharecropping you work and give the crop to the owner of the plantation o Terrorism White Home Rule white southerners are angry and they institute disfranchisement Disfranchisement try to take the 15th amendment away White Supremacist Groups o KKK o White league o Knights of the white camellia STEREOTYPES 1 BLACK BEAST o oversexed o preys on white women 2 SAMBO o illiterate 3 MAMMY o Domestic servant 4 JEZEBEL o Oversexed single woman THE COLOR LINE JIM CROW ERA 1896 1960S PLESSY V FERGUSON 1896 o Supreme court ruled that every institution is meant to keep blacks as second class citizens though o Segregation the separation of public facilities based on race resulting in unequal conditions and resources for the subordinate group o Racial violence increases o lynchings JIM CROW LAWS 1 EDUCATION Inferior facilities and materials 2 JUDICIAL o All white juries o No legal help 3 LEGAL o No voting 4 ECONOMIC o Major barriers LEADERSHIP BOOKER T WASHINGTON o Accomodationist o Believes in an industrial education W E B DUBOIS o Separatist o Self help tradition o Talented tenth top 10 of African americans go to college and be successful o Founded the NAACP RACIAL VIOLENCE EMMETT TILL CHANGE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT 1 Accommodate 2 Great Migration 3 Organizations 4 Resistance Non violence Active CIVIL RIGHTS V BLACK POWER CIVIL RIGHTS ACTS 1964 1965 1968 AFRICAN AMERICANS TODAY
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