Download Chapter 9: Slavery without Submission

Chapter 9: Slavery
without Submission,
Emancipation without
Freedom
Tiffany Benedicto
March 21, 2014
CH S 245-14003
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Gabriel Prosser1800
Denmark Vasey1822
Nat Turner-1831
Largest slave revolt
in the US-near New
Orleans in 1811.
◦ 400-500+ slaves
participated
◦ 66 slaves were killed
on the spot
◦ 16 tried and shot
Slave Rebellions
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1767-July 2, 1822
Enslaved in South
Carolina
A free man
Planned a large slave
rebellion in 1822.
◦ Plan: Burn Charleston, SC
(at that time, 6th largest
city in the nation)
◦ Initiate a revolt of slaves
in the area
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Denmark Vesey
Was betrayed and was
hanged, along with 35
other blacks
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October 2, 1800November 11, 1831
Was referred by “Turner,”
the last name of his owner
Nat Turner’s Rebellion in
Southampton County, VA
in 1831
Gathered 70 slaved and
murdered at least 55 men,
women and children
Captured when
ammunition ran out
Nat Turner and about 18
others were hanged
Rebellion created panic in
the South-security in
South became tighter
Local farmer Benjamin Phipps, capturing Nat Turner
Nat Turner/Nat Turner’s Rebellion
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1820-March 10, 1913
Born into slavery
Most famous conductor on the
Underground Railroad
Made 19 trips back and forth,
often disguised
Escorted more than 300 slaves to
freedom
Was involved with John Brown
and his plans but was not able to
join him due to sickness
In one expedition, she freed 750
slaves
Her philosophy: "There was one of
two things I had a right to, liberty
or death; if I could not have one,
I would have the other; for no
man should take me alive...."
Harriet Tubman
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Circa February 1818February 20, 1895
Learned how to read and
write
At age 21, he escaped to
the North
Became the most famous
black man of his time
Was a lecturer, newspaper
editor, and writer
Wrote Narrative of the Life
of Frederick Douglass
Gave an Independence
Day address in July 1852
regarding slavery
Wrote for The Liberator
Created his own
newspaper, North Star in
1847
Worked with John Brown
but was against Brown’s
plan
Frederick Douglass
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Passed in 1850
Was created as a concession
to southern states in return
fro the admission of
territories into the Union
Made it easier for slave
owners to recapture exslaves or pick up blacks they
claimed ran away
Resistance against the act
was done by Northern blacks
Was signed by President
Fillmore; supported by
Senator Daniel Webster
Lincoln refused to denounce
this law publicly.
Fugitive Slave Act
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May 9, 1800-December 2,
1859(Hanged)
Planned on seizing the federal
arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA and
then set off a revolt in the South
Was told by Frederick Douglass
that his plan would not work
Refused to surrender-barricaded
himself in a small brick building
Stated when captured: "You had
better-all you people at the Southprepare yourselves for a
settlement of this question.. . . You
may dispose of me very easily-I
am nearly disposed of now, but
this question is still to be settled,this Negro question, I mean; the
end of that is not yet."
John Brown
"I, John Brown, am quite certain that
the crimes of this guilty land will never
be purged away but with blood."
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Read the Constitution
strictly due to the 10th
Amendment, Congress could
not bar slavery in the states
When delivering speeches, he
spoke differently depending
on the views of the audience
Elected President in 1860 as a
candidate of the new
Republican party
Delivered first Inaugural
Address in March 1861
Issued preliminary
Emancipation Proclamation
◦ Gave the South four months to
stop rebelling
◦ Threatened to emancipate their
slaves if they continued fighting
◦ Promised to leave slavery
untouched if states went over to
the North
Abraham Lincoln
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Lincoln initiated hostilities to
repossess states that had
seceded from the Union
after his election
Confederacy was
formed=Civil War
Bloodiest was in human
history up to that time
◦ 600,000 dead on both sides in
a population of 30 million
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Blacks living in the South
became a hindrance
◦ This helped the North
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“Before I’d be a slave, I’d be
buried in my grave, and go
home to my Lord and be
saved.”
◦ Spiritual messages said by
slaves during the war
Civil War
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Sojourner Truth
Circa 1797-November 26,
1883
Was active in women’s
rights movement
Recruiter of black troops
for the Union army
Spoke at the Fourth
National Woman’s Rights
Convention in 1853 in
New York City
“I suppose I am about
the only colored woman
the goes about to speak
to for the rights of the
colored women. I want to
keep the thing stirring,
now that the ice is
cracked…”
Passed in July 1862
 Enabled the freeing
of slaves of those
fighting the Union
 Was not enforced by
the generals
 Lincoln ignored the
non-enforcement
 Any property
confiscated during
the war under this
act would revert to
the heirs of the
Confederate owners
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Confiscation Act
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Issued January 1, 1863
Declared slaves free in
areas fighting against the
Union
◦ Didn’t mention anything
about slaves behind Union
lines
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Spurred antislavery forces
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Blacks were now able to
join the Union army
◦ By summer 1864, 400,000
signatures asking to end
slavery was gathered and
sent to Congress
◦ Following this, Thirteenth
Amendment was adopted by
the senate in April 1865
◦ Thirteenth Amendment
declared an end to slavery
Emancipation Proclamation
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Signed by President
Davis of the
Confederacy in early
1865
Authorizes the
enlistment of slaves
as soldiers and freed
by consent of their
owners and state
governments
Had no significant
effect-war ended
Negro Soldier Law
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Period after the Civil War
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1875-Civil Rights Act
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1876-Schooling
◦ 13th Amendment-outlawed slavery
◦ 14th Amendment-declared that “all persons born or
naturalized in the United States” were citizens
◦ 15th Amendment-”The right of citizens of the United
Stated to vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any State on account of
race, color, or previous condition of servitude.”
◦ Several laws were passed and enforced in the
1860s and 1870s making it a crime to deprive
Negroes of rights
◦ Outlaws exclusion of negroes from hotels, theaters,
railroads, and other public areas
◦ 70,000 Negro children attended school
Reconstruction Period
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Zinn, H. (2005) A People’s History of the
United States. Available from iBooks
version 3.2
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