History slavery cards

The slave trade

12 million slaves captured and taken by ship to America across the atlantic ocean from Europe and Africa

Middle passage

Central leg of the slave trade

slave ship

captains tried to limit deaths by forcing people to eat and limiting people form jumping off

Conditions:

poor ventilation

unsanitary

August 1619

First Africans arrive in Jamestown VA:begining of chatle slavvery

Chattel slavery

considered people legal property for life→ passed onto their children

charelston

largest slave trade market-most auctions occured

Indentured servants

contracted workers freed after a number of years

1808

U.S. outlawed importing enslaved people from Africa :did not end slavery and fueled domestic slave trade

cotten gin

expands slavery by making them work to make mroe cotten

Nat turner/Slave resistance

killed 60 white men

1793-Eli whitney invents cotten gin

U.S. provides 2/3rds of the worlds cotten

enlared the slave population

constitution

the constitution never mention the wor “slave”

haitian revolution

defeated French military

declared freedom

made american slave owners nervous about lossing their slaves and started slave codes

slave codes

defined slaved people as property

children werent aloud to read or write

slaves had no legal rights

manumission

slaves sometimes could buy/earn themsleves out of slavery

underground/railroad

harriet tubman lead 300 people to freedom and retured south 19 times

Fredrick Douglass

escaped slavery and was most famous blackperson

loves the constitution

abolitionist

antislaver:not nessasarly equal rights

liberator

newspaper to convince that slavery is worng

gag rule

congress was not alowed to discuss anything that had to do with slavery