• Analyze the characteristics of slavery in the USA before 1860

• Disclaimer…Southern POV today

• Caste System• Racism & White

Supremacy

The cracks in the USAare becoming a problem

• Politically…– Whigs and Strong

Federal Gov• Economically

– Industrializing– Capitalism

• Religiosity?– Strong (Puritan)

• Socially? – City life,

Cosmopolitan, more of a cultural blend, immigration

• Politically– Democrats– States Rights…to

protect…• Economically

– Not very industrialized– Agrarian– Cotton rules

• Religiosity– 2nd Great Awakening

• Socially– Hierarchy based on

slavery

• ____% of Southerners who could own slaves actually did?

• Most homes of the 25% with slaves had about _____slaves

• ____% of Southerners had big plantations

• Most worked with their owner in small fields• Treated sortof like?

• USA’s biggest documents support it…TOO BAD!!!– Which ones?– How?– How can the

Abolitionists use these documents on their side too?

• E, S, or P?• Everyone $$ in

on it…• Get rid of it…&?

• More…–Fields made–Cotton

grown–Slaves

needed in fields to reap the cotton

–Expansion desired by South

• After Cotton Gin, what percent of World’s Cotton grown in USA?

• 1860, what percent of USA’s exports is cotton?

• How can this be a big deal? And for whom?

• Title – Cotton impact in south

• What impact did Cotton make in the south in the 1800s?

Where is slavery thrivingin the USA by 1860?

1. Field hand2. House Servant• Both had benefits

and drawbacks…• What did most

slaves want though?– Anonymity– Community feeling– Less chance of

sexual abuse for women

Why?

#3 LivingConditions

• Some were good– What

would they do for their slaves?

• Many were like though– Many

people suffered...

4. Slave Owners =

• What could they do as master for their slaves?– Taught them!!!!!– Easier work– Fed well– Freed them when they died

• George Washington• Why will all of this

become a problem later on?

6. Some owners treatedtheir slaves well though

• Most serious and dangerous form of resistance for the slave and the owner?

8. SlaveResistance

Runaways had to worry about…

• Take a look at your handout (or this screen)

• What do you notice?

Paddy-Rollerswould

check

Most Common Punishment

• Be sold away– Broke apart

families…– Sold to

what region?• Deep

South • What is

this?

What was the worstpunishment for a slave?

• Religion and Music– There are 2 types of

songs the slaves create because of slavery.

– As you watch the 2 clips, think about what the 2 types of songs are, and characteristics of each.

– Also pay attention for how slaves used religion to help themselves• http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=1JtD_YpyXYU&feature=related

– 4:30-7:30• http://www.youtube.com/

watch?v=dIdRn6F5xSw&feature=related

10. How theslaves coped

• Field Holler…– Work sucks– Unifier in the fields

• Negro Spiritual– Redemption and

freedom would come some day

– Related to Israelites & Moses (why?)

– Secret songs of rebellion!!!

– Whites FOOLED

Religion and Music

“Antebellum” means…

b. What were the goals?– End Slavery…

and…c. Where?

– North mostlyd. When did the

movement begin to strengthen?– Around 1830s

• Think about the overlapping timelines– Women…why (2)?

• Greatest hope was…– Religious activists…

why?• If we are all divine,

how can we own one another? How can God own God?

– Liberal German Immigrants

– Transcendentalists

• Anti-slavery societies

e. How did the abolitionists fight? What weapons did they use?– One big question you will have to figure out is what

was stronger

2.• 1808…• 1787-1807 every state North of Maryland

passed laws gradually abolishing slavery

1. Emancipation– Free slaves…

and then what?– Gradual vs

Immediate plans

2. Colonization – Send free

blacks back to Liberia

– American Colonization Society

• Guess who was in favor of it at first?

• Why do it?– Blacks could never

be treated equal if they were liberated (wrong?)

• Who hated this idea?– Other abolitionists– Most Blacks

Why should the

USA followColonization?

• “Free” Abolitionists– David Walker– William Lloyd Garrison– Harriet Beecher Stowe– Frederick Douglass– John Brown

• Slave “Abolitionists”– Nat Turner– Dred Scott

• And many others…• Big things to think about

as you learn each story– Moderate or Radical?– Pen or Sword?

• Free Black in Boston• Writes • His message to blacks…• What happens to his

“Appeal?”• Moderate or Radical?• Pen or sword?

• Put a bounty on David Walker• What happens to Walker?

–Found dead on his doorstep in 1830• Cause of death?

• 1804-1879• Big Player!!• Many Contributions (Pen or

sword)– The Liberator– New England Anti-Slavery

Society in 1832– American Anti-Slavery

Society in 1833• Moderate or Radical?

– Why?

• Time in Prison…• Famous for burning

something…• Garrison’s impact?

– Loved by few…– South HATED him

(blamed him…for what?)

– People wanted him dead too…

• From 1865-1879…– Worked extensively

with a certain group…

• Background?– Born 1800– VA Slave– Educated– Religious

• What is the big deal with him? (Pen or sword?)– Will lead the

largest slave revolt in US History

• Excerpts from – A bit of Joan of Arc in him– Kills his owner and his

family at night– Turner gets about 50

supporters– Kill about 55 whites (men,

women and children)– Militia stops Rebellion– Turner caught 2 months

later– 55 people executed (gross)– It got worse though…

• Turner’s Rebellion scares the South…–Owners = –3 heart attacks in 2

months Turner was loose

• Someone was blamed for inspiring Turner– William Lloyd Garrison

• Turners Confession scares the South too

• What did Turner plead?

• Turner said his master was a kind man– How is that comment

viewed?• What did VA almost

do in response to Turner’s Rebellion...– Abolish slavery!!!

• How would this be viewed though?

• Even HARSHER slave codes…–designed to do

what?–Examples of

laws put into place? (there are a few)

How doesthe SouthRespond?

• 1817-1895• MD house slave• Owner’s wife

educated him• By early 1830s

(Turner’s legacy) what happens?– Owner was right…

FD became a defiant slave…

– Solution =

• Jan 1833, FD rented by his owner to a Slave Breaker named Edward Covey…

• 1838…– Escapes to NY

• Teamed up with another abolitionist…– William Lloyd

Garrison

• Very important abolitionist b/c most were…– FD dispelled myths

that slaves were inarticulate and inferior

• 2 important works…• Travels to Europe to

rally the cause• Buys his freedom • Moderate or

Radical?• Pen or sword?

• Background?• From

Cincinnati…

• When was Stowe ticked off (why)

• 1852, Stowe writes –Fictional Story

revolving around protagonist Uncle Tom

–What are some important details of what was in the book?• Institution of Slavery

painted in a negative light• Critics thought it was

exaggerated

• “So YOU’RE the little woman who wrote the book that made this big war.”

• Why is her impact HUGE?– Best-seller in USA…(#?)– Two POV’s of Stowe and

Uncle Tom’s Cabin…• South used an old tactic

• Secret Network of paths from the South to…– Why?

• 40K to 100K rescued

• 1820-1913• “Black Moses”• Lucky break when she

was young…• Rescued more than

70 slaves as a UGR “Conductor”…

• Civil War spy…• John Brown…

ClosingQuestion

• Title = Abolitionist Impact• What is the impact (ripple effect) of the

abolitionists from the 1820s to 1850s