WHERE DID THE SLAVES MOSTLY

COME FROM?

SLAVES MOSTLY CAME

FROM AFRICA.
 WHEN DID SLAVERY START IN
AMERICA?

AFTER 1619, WHEN A DUTCH SHIP

BROUGHT 20 AFRICANS ASHORE
AT THE BRITISH COLONY OF
JAMESTOWN, VIRGINIA, SLAVERY
SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE
AMERICAN COLONIES.
WHY DID SLAVERY START IN AMERICA?
IN THE EARLY 17TH CENTURY,
EUROPEAN SETTLERS IN NORTH
AMERICA TURNED TO AFRICAN
SLAVES AS A CHEAPER, MORE
PLENTIFUL LABOR SOURCE THAN
INDENTURED SERVANTS (WHO
WERE MOSTLY POORER
EUROPEANS).
 WHY DID THE WHITES WANT
SLAVES?

MOST OF THE TIME TO WORK IN

RICE PLANTATIONS, IN THE
PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO CROPS
AND LATER, COTTON.
TOBACCO
CROPS

COTTON
CROPS
 WHAT PROBLEMS DID THE
AMERICANS HAVE?
1)THE SOUTH FACED A CRISIS BECAUSE THE
LAND USED TO GROW TOBACCO WAS
EXHAUSTED.

2)THERE WAS A HUGE DEMAND FOR COTTON

BECAUSE OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION IN
ENGLAND(1760-1820/1830) BUT THE
PRODUCTION OF COTTON WAS VERY
DIFFICULT AND TOOK A LOT OF TIME.
 HOW DID THEY SOLVE THIS?

IN 1793, A YOUNG AMERICAN NAMED ELI

WHITNEY INVENTED THE COTTON GIN.
HIS DEVICE WAS WIDELY COPIED, AND
WITHIN A FEW YEARS THE SOUTH WOULD
TRANSITION FROM THE LARGE-SCALE
PRODUCTION OF TOBACCO TO THAT OF
COTTON, A SWITCH THAT REINFORCED THE
REGIONS DEPENDENCE ON SLAVE LABOR.
A COTTON
GIN
HOW DID THE COTTON GIN WORK?
 WHAT WAS BEING A SLAVE LIKE?
PART 1
MOST SLAVES LIVED ON LARGE FARMS OR SMALL
PLANTATIONS
SLAVE OWNERS SOUGHT TO MAKE THEIR SLAVES
COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON THEM. THEY WERE
PROHIBITED FROM LEARNING TO READ AND WRITE, AND
THEIR BEHAVIOR AND MOVEMENT WAS RESTRICTED.
MANY MASTERS:
TOOK SEXUAL LIBERTIES WITH SLAVE WOMEN
REWARDED OBEDIENT SLAVE BEHAVIOR WITH
FAVORS
BRUTALLY PUNISHED REBELLIOUS SLAVES.
 WHAT WAS BEING A SLAVE LIKE?
PART 2

THERE WAS A STRICT HIERARCHY AMONG SLAVES

WHICH WOULD HELP KEEP THEM DIVIDED AND
LESS LIKELY TO ORGANIZE AGAINST THEIR
MASTERS.
SLAVE MARRIAGES HAD NO LEGAL BASIS, BUT
SLAVES DID MARRY AND RAISE LARGE FAMILIES,
BUT THERE WAS AN INHERITED SLAVERY AND
SOMETIMES THEY WERE SEPARATED.
WHAT WAS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH?
BY 1860 SLAVE POPULATION HAD REACHED NEARLY
4 MILLION, WITH MORE THAN HALF LIVING IN THE
COTTON-PRODUCING STATES OF THE SOUTH. THE
ECONOMY OF THE SOUTHERN STATES BASICALLY
DEPENDED ON THE SLAVES.
IN THE NORTH, SLAVERY WAS NEVER WIDESPREAD.
IN FACT, THERE HAD ALWAYS BEEN PEOPLE
AGAINST IT BECAUSE THEY LINKED THE
OPPRESSION OF BLACK SLAVES TO THEIR OWN
OPPRESSION BY THE BRITISH.
 WHAT WAS THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
IT IS A MOVEMENT WHICH MAY HAVE
HELPED FROM 40,000 TO 100,000 SLAVES
REACH FREEDOM.
FREE BLACKS AND OTHER ANTISLAVERY
NORTHERNERS HAD BEGUN HELPING
FUGITIVE SLAVES ESCAPE FROM
SOUTHERN PLANTATIONS TO THE NORTH
VIA A LOOSE NETWORK OF SAFE HOUSES
AS EARLY AS THE 1780S.
WHAT WERE THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE
UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?

APART FROM SLAVES BECOMING

FREE, THE UNDERGROUND
RAILROAD ALSO CAUSED
TENSIONS BETWEEN THE SOUTH
AND THE NORTH AS THE SOUTH
CONSIDERED THAT THE NORTH
WAS AGAINST THEM.
 WHAT DID THE SOUTHERN STATES DO?
AMONG THE 34 U.S.
STATES IN FEBRUARY
1861, SEVEN
SOUTHERN SLAVE
STATES INDIVIDUALLY
DECLARED THEIR
SECESSION FROM THE
U.S. TO FORM THE
CONFEDERATE STATES
OF AMERICA.
 HOW WAS SLAVERY ABOLISHED?
WITH ABRAHAM LINCOLN AS THE
PRESIDENT, THE CIVIL WAR TOOK PLACE
FROM 1861 TO 1865.
IN DECEMBER 1865, THE 13TH
AMENDMENT WAS FORMALLY ADOPTED
INTO THE U.S. CONSTITUTION, ENSURING
THAT NEITHER SLAVERY NOR
INVOLUNTARY SERVITUDE SHALL EXIST
WITHIN THE UNITED STATES, OR ANY
PLACE SUBJECT TO THEIR JURISDICTION.