Slavery existed in the USA from the colonial period until 1865. The document outlines the history and structure of slavery, including the forced migration of Africans, the plantation economy's reliance on slave labor, and the oppression and denial of rights to enslaved people. Abolitionist movements opposed slavery and racial ideology, and the American Civil War from 1861-1865 ultimately led to the end of slavery and new laws protecting civil rights in 1865.

1. SLAVERY IN THE USA
by Lilli Schindler

2. Structure
 Meaning of slavery
 Historical overview
 Oppression of Afro-Americans
 Abolitionism; Abolitionist movement
 End of slavery (American Civil War)

3. Meaning of Slavery
 Conflict between freedom and slavery in the
USA
 Humans are seen as property of others
 No fundamental rights

5. Historical overview
 Conflict between northern and southern states
 Plantation economy
 Upswing in the export of tobacco, cotton, rice and
cane sugar
 Forced mass migration
 Racial ideology

6.  Stono uprising
 “Negro Act”
 absolute restriction of all rights; hardening of the
situation of the slave
 19th century
 Confederate states
 Civil war between northern and southern states
 1865 Act on the final abolition of slavery

7. Oppression of Afro-Americans
 No equality
 Torture methods
 No fundamental rights
 Ideology of subordination

8. Abolitionism; Abolitionist Movement
 Society for Effecting the Abolition of Slavery
 Movement against slavery and racialist
ideology
 Later active for the Civil Rights Movement

9. End of Slavery
 Civil war resulted in the liberation of the
slaves
 1865 slavery prohibited by law in all areas in
the USA
 1868 civil rights formally guaranteed