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If slavery exists there is always someone lower than you - Last Place Aversion Theory
King Cotton
Cont.
Before the Industrial Revolution,
most Southern planters made
little profit from slave labor.
However, the invention of the
cotton gin by Eli Whitney made
slavery profitable.
Slave Distribution
Non-Slaveholding Whites
Poor White Trash - Mountain dwelling whites.
(Will support the Union)
Slaves
Slave Codes
Cont.
Work Slowdowns
Theft
Sabotage
Runaways and Rebellions.
Fugitive Slaves
Early Abolitionism
Quakers were first, as early as the Rev
War.
1816 - The American Colonization
Society
Radical Abolitionism
Cont.
Garrison believed:
Slavery undermined Republican
values
Slavery was a moral, not
economic issue
Immediate emancipation was
necessary with no
compensation to owners.
Full and complete equal rights
for blacks
He is dispised in the South and even
the North views him as too radical.
Violence
Black Abolitionists
David Walker
Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, 1829
Called for violence as a means for freedom rather than wait to
be set free by whites.
Terrified whites in the south who believed his work could
cause a slave uprising.
Sojourner Truth - Freed when New York abolished slavery. Wrote a
autobiography with the help of Oliver Gilbert.
She would tour the nation giving speeches about the evils of
slavery. Would be a strong advocate for womens rights as well friend of Lucretia Mott.
Cont.
Frederick Douglass
Cont.
Harriet Tubman
Known as the Black Moses for helping more than 300 slaves escape the South.
She would continue to serve in the cause of freedom as a spy for the Union during
the Civil War.
Perhaps the most important conductor on the Underground Railroad.