Slavery Flashcards

What was the passage that the slaves took to the New World called?

The Middle Passage

What were the three areas involved in Triangle Trade?

1. Africa- where slaves were kidnapped from

2. West Indies- where the slaves worked on Plantations

3. Europe- where the plantation crops were sent

What were the crops grown on plantations?

• cotton

• Rice

• Hemp

• Indigo

• Sugar

Who invented the cotton gin?

Eli Whitney

What year did slavery become a problem?

1830

What line was slavery preserved under?

The Mason-Dixon line

How many slaves and how many southerners were there in 1830?

2.16 million slaves and 3.54 million Southerners

Who asked the Virginia legislature In Dec. 1831 to gradually phase out slavery?

John Floyd

By how many votes was the Virginia plan to phase out slavery rejected by?

1 vote

What was Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

Turner led a slave rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia 1831

He killed 60 plantation owners

Who published a pamphlet called The Appeal, that called for violent revolt against slave owners?

David Walker

Who was William Lloyd Garrison?

He was a pacifist that founded an anti slavery newspaper called The Liberator; he supported nonviolent slave rebellion

What were the effects of Nat Turner’s Rebellion?

• sent fear among Southern whites

• (Slaves outnumbered whites 20 to 1)

• South blamed North for rebellion

• South begins to close ranks

What did the South do while closing ranks?

1. Insulted South from outside ideas that threatened slavery and suppressed dissent at home

2. White southerners stopped apologizing for slavery by calling it a “positive good”- benefited all involved

3. Reformed the slave codes- “improved” conditions for slaves but placed stricter control and punishments on them

What were some pro slavery arguments?

• the Bible had slavery

• History had slavery

• Culture

• Social “proof” of justice and benefits of the institution of slavery

What were slave patrols?

Mounted posses of armed whites that policed roads and plantations, especially at night.

Had the legal right to break into slave cabins and have slaves account for themselves

Who was Sojourner Truth?

• a Black abolitionist that was freed from slavery in 1827

• Powerful orator with speeches and songs

• Compared slavery to the boll weevil

Who was Frederick Douglass?

• born in 1817 in Maryland

• Escaped slavery and wrote an autobiography

• Was close to Lincoln

What was the biggest piece of propaganda for the anti-slavery movement?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

How many people were slaves in 1860?

4 million

How many families owned slaves?

1 in 4

how many bales of cotton and how much money per year?

4 million bales; 190 million

What were the types of slaves?

• house slave

• Field slave

• Concubine

What did slaves grow in order to be self sufficient?

Corn, vegetables, and raised hogs

How much money did a slave make and how much did they cost?

Produced $80-$120, and cost $30-$50 annually

How were slaves auctioned?

They were treated like cattle; auctioned or put in pens

What was the line that only slaves along it had a chance of escaping?

Mason-Dixon Line

What was the Underground Railroad?

Successful hiding of slaves and moving at night

What was Harriet Tubman known for?

“Moses”; she helped runaway slaves along the Underground Railroad. She made 19 trips into the South to free slaves

By what time did slaves mostly embrace Protestant Christianity?

1850

What were the common denominations of slaves?

Baptist and Methodist