Stowage of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ 1790 Up to 500 slaves were transported from the African coast to the New World in ships such as this.

Slavery and Emancipationin America

Origins of the Slave trade

Life on a plantation and slave resistance

The abolitionist movement

Emancipation

The impact of slavery in America

Lesson objectives:

•What is slavery?

•Why did the African slave trade develop?

•Describe the journey from Africa to the Americas

Slavery is a system whereby people are treated as property

American Declaration of Independence1776

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness

…When Thomas Jefferson made the declaration of American independence he owned over 100 slaves.

Why did the slave trade develop?The need for labour to grow SUGAR and later tobacco

and cotton.

Why did they not enslave the native American population?• Disease in South America• Resistance from native Americans in North America (U.S.A.)

The Triangular Trade

Slaves were captured by African slave traders and sold on the coast

to European slave traders who brought them to America

Africans were enslaved in four ways:1.Freemen and women were

kidnapped2.Domestic slaves were resold3.Prisoners of war4.Criminals sold by a chief as

punishment for their crime

Stowage of the slave ship ‘Brookes’ 1790

Up to 500 slaves were transported from the African coast to the New World in ships such as this

Olaudah Equiano (c.1745 - 1797)

“Indeed, such were the horrors of my views and fears at the moment, that, if ten thousand worlds had been my own, I would have freely parted with them all to have exchanged my condition with that of the meanest slave in my own country. When I looked round the ship too, and saw a large furnace of copper boiling, and a multitude of black people of every description chained together, every one of their countenances expressing dejection and sorrow, I no longer doubted of my fate, and, quite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted.”

Module Assignment: RAFT writing

Choose an aspect of the module which interests you…

Pick a ROLE as a writer (e.g. politician, slave, abolitionist)

Choose your AUDIENCE (e.g. public or private? Personal or official?)

What FORMAT will the writing take (e.g. letter, speech, appeal)

What is the TOPIC (e.g. abolition, trading, the Middle passage, rebellion)

Lesson 2

•Life on a slave plantation in America

•Slave resistance

Slavery Legalised

•The first slaves arrives in North America (U.S.A) in 1619. They landed in Jamestown, Virginia.

At first they were simply called indentured servants, same as many Europeans they would be freed after seven years

John Punch

The ‘Big House’

Typical slave cabin

Forms of resistance• Slow down

• Run away

• Rebellion (not usually successful)

• Break machinery, harm themselves to reduce their property value

• Continue to practise religion form bonds and family ties in spite of their condition

• Against all the odds slaves learned to supplement their food by hunting and fishing. Some learned to read and write.

The Abolition Movement

Slavery and Emancipation in America

Objectives1. What were the arguments for and against the

institution of slavery?

2. The underground railway

3. Famous abolitionists: Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass

1st African slave Pennsylvania InternationalArrives in S.A. bans slavery slave trade banned 1592____________1619___________1780____________1804_____________1807

1st Africans Slavery banned arrive in Virginia in all Northern states

Turner “The Slave Ship”"Aloft all hands, strike the top-masts and belay;Yon angry setting sun and fierce-edged cloudsDeclare the Typhon's coming.Before it sweeps your decks, throw overboardThe dead and dying – ne'er heed their chainsHope, Hope, fallacious Hope!Where is thy market now?“

1840

Response to the Fugitive Slave law 1850

Extract from ‘The Liberator’Though distant be the hour, yet come it must—

Oh hasten it, in mercy, righteous Heaven! When Afric’s sons, uprising from the dust,

Shall stand erect—their galling fetters riven; When from her throne Oppression shall be driven,

An exiled monster, powerless through all time, When freedom—glorious freedom, shall be given

To every race, complexion, cast and clime, And nature’s sable hue shall cease to be a crime!

William Lloyd Garrison 1805-1879

The Underground Railway

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/abolition-and-the-underground-railroad

What was the pro-slavery argument?

Frederick Douglass

http://www.biography.com/people/frederick-douglass-9278324/videos/frederick-douglass-mini-biography-2078942083

Harriet Tubman

http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/slavery/videos/harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad

Emancipation of slaves

Slavery in America

Objectives

1.Who was Abraham Lincoln?

2.The American civil war and emancipation

3.Modern day slavery

Abraham Lincoln 1809-65

16th President 1861-65

His election divided the

nation

American Civil War 1861-65http://www.history.com/topics/american-civil-war/emancipation-proclamation/videos/civil-wars-greatest-myth

What was the problem? What was the solution? 

1. Slavery was “an unqualified evil to the negro, the white man, and the State,” said Abraham Lincoln in the 1850s. Yet in his first inaugural address, Lincoln declared that he had “no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with slavery in the States where it exists.” He reiterated this pledge in his first message to Congress on July 4, 1861, when the Civil War was three months old.

2. Lincoln had powers as commander-in-chief of the armed forces to seize    any property used to wage war against the United States.

3. Slavery was protected by the Constitution. 

Emancipation Proclamation

Lincoln issued a preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, declaring that as of January 1, 1863, all slaves in the rebellious states “shall be then, thenceforward, and forever

free.”

Thirteenth Amendment 1865

“neither slavery nor involuntary servitude … shall exist within the United States.”

Modern day slavery

World cup slaves in Qatarhttp://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/25/revealed-qatars-world-cup-slaves