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Warm Up

Warm Up. Take out your Primary Source Packet & Primary Source Questions. Slavery. The Slave Trade. Triangle Trade Middle Passage. African Slavery. Slavery in Africa was mostly domestic Conquered kingdoms enslaved by conquerors

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Warm Up

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  1. Warm Up Take out your Primary Source Packet & Primary Source Questions

  2. Slavery

  3. The Slave Trade • Triangle Trade • Middle Passage

  4. African Slavery • Slavery in Africa was mostly domestic • Conquered kingdoms enslaved by conquerors • Most African slaves were able to earn freedom or became part of the family that they owned

  5. Chattel Slavery • A Slave was not a person, but property • Slaves were owned much as work animals were • No rights to themselves, to movement, to fruits of their own labor

  6. Slavery • Many slaves worked from birth to death • Suffered from their masters • What are some examples from what you read?

  7. The Southern Economy • Driven by Cotton boom • Dependent on Slave Labor

  8. A Northern Institution? • Original slavers were Northern shippers • Then later Northern textile Industry caused demand for Southern cotton • Northern Economy caused intensification of southern institution

  9. Slave Rebellions • Stono Rebellion • Nat Turner • Gabriel Prosser • Denmark Vesey

  10. No Rights • Many states had strict slave codes • Kept slaves from leaving plantation

  11. Fugitive Slave Acts of 1793 and 1850 • Used to prevent people from aiding escaping slaves • Allowed Southern states to have slaves returned

  12. Abolition • Wanted end to slavery • Mostly Christian Northerners • William Lloyd Garrison

  13. Slavery in Congress • Divisive issue • Slave Trade (importation) outlawed in 1808 • Missouri Compromise • Gag order in effect for many years • 1836-1844

  14. Manifest Destiny • More territory means more debate over slavery and its expansion

  15. Primary Source Work

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