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Resisting Slavery

Resisting Slavery . Resistance. Work slow Playing “ Sick” Break tools “Theft ” Poisoning Food Run away Rebellion Gabriel Prosser . Running Away. Over 1,000 Mainly in upper south Ran to the North or Canada. Negro Spirituals. Slaves created songs with secret messages

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Resisting Slavery

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  1. Resisting Slavery

  2. Resistance • Work slow • Playing “Sick” • Break tools • “Theft” • Poisoning Food • Run away • Rebellion Gabriel Prosser

  3. Running Away • Over 1,000 • Mainly in upper south • Ran to the North or Canada

  4. Negro Spirituals Slaves created songs with secret messages Examples (Don’t copy) Swing Low Sweet Chariot Let My People Go Wade in the Water

  5. The Underground Railroad • A series of safe houses slaves used to get to freedom

  6. Family on Underground Railroad

  7. Harriet Tubman • Leader of Underground Railroad • Homes, barns, woods, trails north • 19 missions • 300 people

  8. Slave Rebellions • Violently overthrowing slave masters • Usually by killing them and their families • Very rare

  9. Rebellions • Nat Turner, 1831 • Led a slave rebeliion in Virginia Killed 70

  10. · Turner was caught and hanged. His revolt, however, increased Southerner’s fears of slave revolts.

  11. Slave Rebellions (Don't Copy) • Gabriel Prosser 1800 • Literate • Richmond, VA • 1000 slaves • “Death or liberty” • Denmark Vescey, 1822 • Telemanque, born in Africa or W. Indies • Free, literate, preacher • Charleston • Missouri Compromise • 100 men

  12. Resisting Slavery · Many slaves tried to escape to the North. Few were successful. · In 1831, an African-American preacher named Nat Turner led a revolt in Virginia, killing 57 whites.

  13. Rewards Whites could be Jailed or fined Blacks could be killed Consequences

  14. The Fugitive Slave Laws Of 1850 • Under this law, it gave slave owners the right to organize a posse to recapture runaway slaves. • No African American was considered safe. • Courts and police had to help all over the United States. • Private citizens had to help, too to recapture the slaves.

  15. Fredrick Douglass • He escaped from slavery • He held speeches asking for the end of slavery

  16. Abolitionist • A white person who wanted to abolish (end) slavery

  17. Dred Scott • Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom

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