Slavery presentation 2020

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26. READ AND INTERPRET THE QUOTE BELOW. WHAT IS
THOMAS JEFFERSON STATING ABOUT THE ISSUE OF
SLAVERY?
• “..BUT AS IT IS WE HAVE THE
WOLF BY THE EARS, WE CAN
NEITHER HOLD HIM, NOR
LET HIM SAFELY GO. JUSTICE
IS IN ONE SCALE, AND SELF
PRESERVATION IN THE
OTHER.”

27. KING COTTON
• INDICATES THE ECONOMIC
DOMINANCE OF THE COTTON
INDUSTRY
• THE NORTH NEEDED THE
SOUTH'S COTTON.

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31. Slaveholding, 1850
1 68,000
2 – 4 105,000
5 – 9 80,000
10 – 19 55,000
20 – 49 30,000
50 – 99 6,000
100 – 199 1,500
200+ 250
STATISTICS
Where are the majority of large slaveholdings
located?

32. How does this graph prove that cotton was king?

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42. A PECULIAR INSTITUTION
Peculiar Institution  a term used to explain away the seeming contradiction of legalized
slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that "all men are created
equal"

43. A PECULIAR INSTITUTION
• THE GAG RULE
(1836) – THE HOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES
ADOPTED A GAG
RULE PROHIBITING
ANTISLAVERY PETITION
FROM BEING READ OR
ACTED UPON.
REPEALED IN 1845

44. PRO-SLAVERY
DOCUMENTS
• How do the two
images compare?
• Why do you think
the artist chose to
compare the
conditions of
slaves with that of
English, not
American, free
laborers?

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• THE LIBERATOR
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