PPT-Slavery & Society

18001860 How did the domestic slave trade function Slave trade What does the account of a slave auction reveal about the mindset of slaveowning whites Sales product promoted How was power distributed in . 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 . Who are abolitionists? . Why do they believe what they believe? . American History. Section 10, Unit 4. Crusade for Abolition. Objectives. Explain how African Americans changed the focus on the antislavery efforts. 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. I cannot remember when I did not so think and feel.”. --Abraham Lincoln. ( . from a letter to A G. Hodges, April 4, 1864, . By . 1500. Slavery . had . mostly died . out in . Western Europe. .. Elsewhere, still common.. Participation of . all. races:. African blacks. : capturing from other tribes; internal transport; sale at major African slave markets.. OBJ: Were democratic ideals spread throughout society? To find out we’ll look at the reforms, intentions and actions of the members of these movements.. THE REFORMERS. WHITE, MIDDLE & UPPER MIDDLE CLASS WOMEN. 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 . SS8. What was life like as a slave? . It is impossible for any of us to truly understand the horrors of slavery but we can learn about the experiences of these men and women. WARM - UP. BRAINSTORM: What . 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. . 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. . American slavery was rooted in both . racism. & . economic. . exploitation. and depended on . brutal repression . for its survival.. Slavery remained a cancer on American democracy; a moral outrage that mocked our nation’s claim to be a model of social & political enlightenment. - 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.” . 1820-1860. A10Q. 7.10.30. Essential Question. To what degree was the South developing as a distinctively different region from the rest of the United States during the period 1820 to 1860? . To what degree did slavery shape life in the South during this period? .