Slave codes were laws that controlled the behavior of slaves. A picture shows a family of Africans being sold into slavery, risking being separated forever. Slaves resisted slavery by refusing to obey owners or work, pretending to be sick, breaking tools, learning to read despite bans, escaping to the North on the Underground Railroad, and rebelling in groups.

1. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery

2. Warm-Up 3/4 Come in, sit down QUIETLY and set-up! Use p. 471 in the RED BOOK to answer these questions: 1) What is a “slave code”? 2) Analyze the picture at the bottom of p. 471. What is happening in the picture? Write the questions AND answers!

3. Warm-Up 3/4 1) What is a “slave code”? - Slave codes were the laws made to control behavior of slaves 2) Analyze the picture at the bottom of p. 471. What is happening in the picture? - A family of Africans are being sold as slaves. The family may be separated forever.

4. Causes of the Civil War: N v. S Causes of the Civil War “ A House Divided” NORTH SOUTH COLD INDUSTRIAL big cities factories & inventions railroads & canals to move goods immigrants from Ireland & Germany “ free labor” = workers are paid wanted higher tariffs (import tax) WARM AGRICULTURAL farms & plantations plantations depended on slave labor slaves are forced to work without pay farmers plant cash crops, like cotton , tobacco, rice, sugar & indigo wanted lower tariffs

5. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery Objective: We will summarize the slave codes and how slaves resisted slavery

6. North v. South Causes of the Civil War “ A House Divided” NORTH SOUTH Slavery is BAD ! Want to fight it out?! Slavery is GOOD ! Let’s take this outside!

7. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery List examples of “slave codes” (or slave rules) using p. 471 here Example: slaves could not buy or sell goods List examples of how slaves resisted, or fought against, slavery using p. 471-473 here Example: slaves refused to work

8. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery Slave Codes or Rules slave owners can whip slaves and physically punish them slaves cannot hit white people slaves cannot own property slaves cannot buy or sell goods slaves cannot leave plantation without permission slaves cannot learn to read & write slaves must get permission to marry

9. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery How did slaves resist slavery? slave refused to obey owners slaves refused to work slaves worked slowly, pretended to be sick and broke farm tools slaves learned to read & write slaves escaped to the North using the Underground Railroad slaves rebelled against owners in groups

10. Slave Codes & Resisting Slavery Pretend you are a slave on a large cotton plantation in South Carolina in 1843. Write about a typical day living as a slave under the Slave Codes, and write about if you would resist the Slave Codes or not and how. Minimum ONE paragraph.