Slavery, The Peculiar Institution
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Focuses on African "origins", the Atlantic slave trade, Southern entrenchment, treatment, and responses to slavery.
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- 1. “A More Perfect Union” Senator Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008.
- 4. “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing‘God Bless America’. No, no, no, God damn America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people….God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” — 2003 sermon
- 6. “The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations….
- 7. “The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations….
- 8. Article 1. Section 2. Paragraph 3: “Representatives and directTaxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union,according to their respective Numbers,which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons …and…three fifths of all other Persons.”
- 9. AsWilliam Faulkner once wrote,‘The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.’ We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African- American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.”
- 11. Slavery
- 12. 1.African Origins? 2.Atlantic SlaveTrade 3.Colonial Slavery 4.TheWorld of the Enslaved 5.Northern African Americans 6.Conclusion
- 13. African Origins?
- 14. kingdoms
- 16. large landowners
- 17. small landowners
- 18. slaves
- 19. protected
- 20. property
- 21. hereditary
- 22. POWs
- 25. 400,000
- 26. 4,000,000
- 28. “Middle Passage”
- 31. 10-15%
- 32. 1807 (GB), 1808 (US)
- 34. Colonial Slavery MISCEGENATION: mid 19th century, formed irregularly from Latin miscere‘to mix’ + genus‘race’ + English -ation.
- 37. entrenchment
- 38. GB: 80%
- 39. NE: 284 million lbs
- 40. cotton‘gin
- 41. $350…$1500
- 42. $350…$1500
- 43. 1860
- 44. “average” slave The World of the Enslaved
- 45. hierarchy
- 46. 1) house
- 49. 2) hotel/artisan 1) house 3) field hand
- 50. ????
- 54. <LIFE SPANS>
- 55. SouthernWhites
- 56. NorthernWhiteWC
- 63. Stanley Elkins Slavery : A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959)
- 69. 5/15 1860
- 70. segregation
- 71. discrimination
- 72. “last hired, first fired”
- 78. “I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation…. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND IWILL BE HEARD.”
- 79. “A covenant with death & an agreement with hell.”
- 81. Article 1. Section 2. Paragraph 3: “Representatives and directTaxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union,according to their respective Numbers,which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons …and…three fifths of all other Persons.”
- 83. “written by himself” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- 86. riots
- 87. riots
- 88. Conclusion How to end the Peculiar Institution?
- 90. “[A]lmost exclusively slave labor except as to the Boss men…enables me of course to compete with other manufacturers.” Joseph R. Anderson, 1847 Tredegar Iron Works Joseph R. Anderson, 1847 Tredegar Iron Works BACKSTORY