PPT-Escaping Slavery:

Real Slaves That Used Their Wits Robert Smalls How Do You Think I escaped slavery take a guess Robert Smalls Slave that worked on a steamboat Sailed the boat to free land when crew left boat . Sarah Richardson. Slavery. Slave trade defined as the enforced migration of people across national boundaries over long distances to bondage in a different setting . Ancient empires of Egypt, Greece and Rome all utilised slave labour . Adapted from Robert Stanton’s lesson plan on the 13. th. amendment. For or Against Slavery?. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation. As the war continued:. Harsh treatment towards African Americans. Slavery. Road To Freedom . dbays. /teacherspayteachers.com. Underground Railroad. . (UGRR. ) is a term for the network of people and places who assisted fugitive slaves as they escaped from slavery in the South. 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. Starters. Starter # 1-Slavery & World History. 1. ________ Slavery is a product of capitalism..  . 2. ________ Myth: Slavery was an economically backward and inefficient institution.. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.”. --Abraham Lincoln. ( . from a letter to A G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, . by Dakota Garoutte. slavery. . slavery describes a wide variety of conditions where by one person sub ordinates another, usually by the exercise of physical coercion. Slavery was also taken for granted. 16.1 – Slavery in the Territories. From the days of Jefferson and the Founding Fathers, slavery was a major issue for politicians. The Missouri Compromise. By 1819, there were 22 states (11 free, 11 not). Bellwork. :. Read the primary source. What point is the author trying to make?. “I am aware that many object to the severity of my language; but is there not cause for severity? I . will be. as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject, I do not wish to think or speak, or write, with moderation. No! No! Tell a man whose house is on fire, to give a moderate alarm; tell him to moderately rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually [remove] her babe from the fire into which it has fallen – but urge me not to use moderation in a cause like the present. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD.”. The Road to the Missouri Compromise . Northwest territories - land acquired from the British after their defeat in the American Revolutionary War.. Northwest Ordinance of 1787 strictly forbade slavery in these territories.. missouri. and . kansas. Created by: . Jesse V. McClain. The Issue of Slavery. Introduction. Slavery in Missouri. Slavery in Kansas. Slavery. Slavery is the condition of being held against one’s will and being forced to work without pay. . 1793-1860. American Pageant Chapter 16. “Cotton is King!”. King Cotton. Cotton Gin—revives slavery. South & others profited. ½ of American exports after 1840. Produced more than ½ world’s supply. - 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.” . Barbados slaves codes brought to South Carolina. . Leads to massive Racism. . Imported in large numbers following:. Bacons Rebellion-1676. Invention of Cotton Gin- 1790 . Compromise of the Constitution.