PPT-Origins of Slavery in America

APUSH Spiconard i Why Slavery Profits Sugar tobacco and rice were extremely profitable Plantation owners wanted to maximize their profits Slave labor allows for maximization of profits Africa has a history of slavery. 1807 – British bans the Atlantic Slave trade. 1809 – Prussia (Germany) bans slavery. 1832 – Britain abolishes slavery. 1848 – France abolishes Slavery. 1861 – Russia abolishes serfdom (slavery). How it all began:. The first Africans in America arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as indentured servants. From 1619 to around1640, Africans were able to earn their freedom by working as artisans and labor workers for the European settlers.. Walter Johnson refers to . Joseph Holt Ingraham’s work, ‘The Southwest by a Yankee’ (1835. ). Johnson . states that there is no more important topic in relation to slavery than the topic approached by Ingraham regarding ‘the relation of slavery to race… of the process of economic exploitation to the ideology of racial domination. Essential Questions. How did the modern system of slavery develop?. What was the history of the slave trade and the Middle Passage?. How did Africans manage to create communities among the brutal slave system?. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.”. --Abraham Lincoln. ( . from a letter to A G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, . Slavery’s Evolution. At the beginning of the 18th century, most slaves were born in Africa, few were Christian, and very few slaves were engaged in raising cotton. By the start of the American Revolution, slavery had changed dramatically. Slavery Grievance. Thomas Jefferson was born to a slave-owning family and he . himself owned . slaves. As chairman of the committee that drafted . the Declaration . of Independence, Jefferson wrote a . Warm-Up (IN Page 29 TOP). Write down everything you know about slavery or the slave trade. . (Make sure to use COMPLETE SENTENCES). Based on our discussions, what was slavery like in Spanish-controlled America?. George E. Davis, MD . New Mexico Department of Children, Youth and Families. for. Child Trauma Academy. . Juvenile arrest rate highest ever in 1996 and then declined 48% by 2011. MALE AND FEMALE ARREST RATES—. . The Missouri Compromise (1820). A James Monroe Museum. Virtual Exhibit. Image Credit: Robert K. Griffin “The Liberian Senate,” Library of Congress. Introduction. The United States had debated slavery since its founding. However, tensions over the issue were growing by the time of Monroe’s presidency. . - Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass. “I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.” . The first Africans in America arrived in Jamestown, Virginia in 1619 as indentured servants. From 1619 to around1640, Africans were able to earn their freedom by working as artisans and labor workers for the European settlers.. Animal Liberation Front. Origins . Hunt Saboteurs Association (HSA)- 1962. John Prestige . Committed to nonviolence. Band of Mercy-1970s. Break away group of HSA (Sabbers). Named after Victorian Youth Wing of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Origins of the Cold War – . #8 Kennan’s Long Telegram & Containment. Developed by a young diplomat and State Department Soviet specialist, George F. Kennan. The Long . Telegram (1946) . was widely circulated within U.S. bureaucracy.