Chapter 14 - The Ramifications of Slavery

Slave

________ posses- Capture escaped slaves.

Jefferson

1805- ________ sent Navy + Marines to stop attacks.

Euphemism

________- Avoid directly naming slavery.

Impressment

________- Captured + forced Americans into British Navy.

Barbary pirates of Tripoli

________- Preyed on American + European commercial vessels.

Personal liberty laws

________- Protect escaped slaves.

Euphemism

Avoid directly naming slavery

Slavery

Beneficial to US + slaves

1833

Slave states toughened slave codes

1839

Slaves revolt on slave ship Amistad

1800

1st leader of slave insurrection

1822

Planned slave revolt → Hanged

1831

Slave rebellion → Captured + hanged

1841

Abolitionist speeches

1845

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass

North Star

Abolitionist newspaper

1826

Escaped from slavery

1851

Attended womens rights convention

Slave posses

Capture escaped slaves

1857

The Impending Crisis of the South

Racist

Wanted to deport AA to Africa

1854

Sociology for the South

1837

Killed by a mob

1831

The Liberator (Abolitionist newspaper)

1849

Escaped slavery

1840

Supported emancipation of slaves

1830-1860

Helped 50,000+ slaves escape

Personal liberty laws

Protect escaped slaves

1816

Founded

African slavery

"Positive good"

South

Pro-slavery + political tactics

Impressment

Captured + forced Americans into British Navy

**Era of Good Feelings

One political party → No party conflict

Barbary pirates of Tripoli

Preyed on American + European commercial vessels

1805

Jefferson sent Navy + Marines to stop attacks

Peculiar Institution

Used formerly of slavery as an institution peculiar to the South in the U.S

Cotton Kingdom

The cotton-producing region of the southern United States up until the Civil War

Mason-Dixon Line

The boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania; symbolic dividing line between North and South before the American Civil War

Cotton Gin

A machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers

Slave Codes

Laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and chattel slavery in the Americas

Manumission

The formal act of freeing from slavery

Amistad

A U.S. brig came across the schooner Amistad off the coast of Long Island, New York. Aboard the Spanish ship were a group of Africans who had been captured and sold illegally as slaves in Cuba. The enslaved Africans then revolted at sea and won control of the Amistad from their captors.

Christian Paternalism

The interference of a state or an individual with another person, against their will, and defended or motivated by a claim that the person interfered with will be better off or protected from harm

Gabriel Prosser

A literate enslaved blacksmith who planned a large slave rebellion in the Richmond

Denmark Vesey

An early 19th century free Black pastor and community leader in Charleston, South Carolina, who was accused and convicted of planning a major slave revolt in 1822

Nat Turner

An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831

Frederick Douglass

After escaping from slavery in Maryland, he became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York, becoming famous for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings

Sojourner Truth

An African American evangelist, abolitionist, women's rights activist, author who was born into slavery

Negro Spirituals

A genre of Christian music that is associated with Black Americans, which merged African cultural heritage with the experiences of being held in bondage in slavery

Slave Society

Any society where slave labor -- where the definition of labor, where the definition of the relationship between ownership and labor -- is defined by slavery

Black Codes

Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, and move freely through public spaces

Hinton R. Helper

An American Southern critic of slavery during the 1850s

Positive Good Theory

Slavery as a positive good was the prevailing view of white Southern U.S. politicians and intellectuals just before the American Civil War, as opposed to seeing it as a crime against humanity or even a necessary evil

George Fitzhugh

An American social theorist who published racial and slavery-based sociological theories in the antebellum era

William Lloyd Garrison

A prominent American Christian, abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer

Harriet Tubman

Made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including family and friends, using the network of antislavery activists and safe houses known as the Underground Railroad

Underground Railroad

Secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War

American Colonization Society

Founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to encourage and support the migration of free people of color to the continent of Africa