Slavery History America

The  mass movement to abolish slavery started in England in the mid-18^th century. British ships controlled much of the slave trade at the time.


Through this experiences in the past of slavery, we should use and learn that racism should   stop existing. Even though now slavery does not exist and people have their rights but there is still racism in today's world. I believe that we should do another law that will help to stop racism. All this racism in the world leads to violence. 

(A video of Slavery in the United States) - this is part 1, after your finish seeing part 1 - go to part 2. There are 3 parts of the video. Hope you enjoy the video and learn a lot from it. :)

Slavery History America

During the Civil War, the worst episode of the war was the Ku Klux Klan - under the command of Nathan Bedford Forrest - founder of the Ku Klux Klan. They massacred Union soldiers at Fort Pillow on the Tennessee River on April 12, 1864. The Civil War experience was a high point in history. 


"After the War, the nation all but abandoned efforts at providing justice for the formerly enslaved except during a few short years from 1865 to 1876, known as the era of Reconstruction. After that brief period, during which southern blacks experienced significant political and social empowerment, there descended upon the region over 100 years of segregation, lynching, disfranchisement, and racial violence commonly known as the era of Jim Crow. Writing in the 1890s in the midst of Jim Crow, black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, whose father served as a Union soldier, wrote with pride about the Civil War experience of blacks who fought to free themselves from slavery, both actually and symbolically."


http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_overview.htm

Frederick Douglass

Frederick Douglas freed himself from slavery and helped to free millions of others. He lived in Rochester, NY throughout the Civil War. After the war he moved to Washington, DC to serve in international affairs.

Frederick Douglas was known as one of the America's first great black speakers. He gave a powerful voice for human rights in American history and is still used for today's period.

He served as an adviser to President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and fought for the adoption of constitutional amendments that guarantee voting rights and other civil liberties for blacks. He was one of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery in the United States.

Slavery in the U.S.

In 1833, Britain stopped slavery, then in late 1865 the United States did the same, making it illegal. They made it a crime to own slaves. In the United States, it stopped after the American Civil War. When the North won, all slaves were made free. When that happened, it was called "abolition of slavery". Slavery still exists today in some countries.

The first slaves arrived in Virginia around 1619, and slavery existed in America for the next 250 years. During the four centuries of the Atlantic slave trade, an estimated 11 million Africans were transported to North and South America. Slaves had no say in where they lived or who they worked for. They had no representation in government. Slaves could not own property and were not allowed to learn or be taught how to read and write.

The Emancipation Proclamation of 1863 did not end slavery. Slavery continued in the states that were part of the Union forces. Slavery came to an end in 1865 when the 13th Amendment was ratified after the end of the Civil War.

"Abolition of slavery meant freedom from: the separation of families, rape of women slaves by slave masters, beatings (and other punishments), working without consent, working for someone without wages, lack of access to education, white supervision during religious worship and the denial of marriage."

Sources:

http://civilliberty.about.com/od/raceequalopportunity/ig/History-of-Black-Civil-Rights/The-Atlantic-Slave-Trade.htm - important information.
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/wahl.slavery.us

http://www.usnationalslaverymuseum.org/# - you can learn more about slavery in the museum.

http://www.uen.org/themepark/liberty/slavery.shtml
http://www.tellmewhyfacts.com/2007/11/when-was-slavery-abolished-in-us-and.html

Slavery History In America

Abraham Lincoln is referred to "The Great Emancipator". Lincoln began his career by claiming that he was "antislavery"- against slavery's expansion; not calling for immediate emancipation. However, he who began as "antislavery" eventually issued the Emancipation Proclamation, which freed all slaves in states that were in rebellion. He supported the 13th Amendment which abolished slavery throughout the United States and in the last speech of his life - he recommended extending the vote to African Americans.

Women faced the same challenges as slaves did back then. Women worked in domestic sites when slavery existed more than men did. Also, back then Women didn't have rights and men controlled them and could do whatever they want with them. Even men could have as many wives as he liked and women couldn't do nothing about it.

Source: http://www.nps.gov/liho/historyculture/slavery.htm
http://www.history.org/almanack/people/african/aaintro.cfm

Slaves in U.S. History (Slavery)

Cape Coast Castle, Inner Courtyard, Ghana, 1986 

Slaves were imprisoned here in appalling dungeons prior to departure. Today, it is a popular tourist attraction along with nearby Elmina Castle and the Maison des Esclaves (slave house) at Gorée Island, Senegal.

Cape Coast Castle, Door of No Return

This was the door leading to the slave ships. When a slave walked through this door he was leaving his African homeland forever.

Slaves had to do the tasks that they were required to do (had no say on the tasks they were required to) and they had no control over how long they worked. Slaves were used in northern states in factories to produce manufactured goods but most slaves worked on plantations in southern states.

Slaves were used on plantations for a variety of tasks which were picking cotton, harvesting sugar cane, planting and harvesting rice, harvesting tobacco, growing and harvesting coffee, building railroads, working in the dairy, weaving, carpentry, washing clothes, cooking, and butchering and preserving.

The Underground Railroad were secret routes that helped fugitive slaves in the United States escape to the North and to Canada.

Harriet Tubman was a slave herself too but then she escaped from slavery and helped other slaves escape.

Harriet Tubman was one of the most well-known "conductors" of the Underground Railroad's. During a ten-year span she made 19 trips into the South and escorted over 300 slaves to freedom. And, as she once proudly pointed out to Frederick Douglass, in all of her journeys she "never lost a single passenger."


Sources: http://www.slaverysite.com/index.html
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/tl.html#top
http://www.historyonthenet.com/Slave_Trade/slaveryexplain.htm
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1535.html

Slaves (Slavery) in U.S. History

Punishment
There were very harsh punishments for slaves. There was a law that provided slaves with virtually no protection from their masters. On large plantations the power was delegated to overseers - refer to the 1st post to what overseers were. Slaves were under considerable pressure from the plantation owners to maximize profits. Plantation owners did this by bullying the slaves into increasing productivity. The punishment used against slaves were the use of whipping. Sometimes slave-owners physically abused (mutilating) and used slaves as a symbol or calling them names (branding).

Education
In the early 19th century there were no schools in the southern states of America that admitted black children to free public schools. Some brave teachers in North Carolina, ran secret night schools. There was a teacher, who was caught teaching black children in Norfolk, Virginia - the teacher went to prison. In 1834, Connecticut, passed a law making it illegal to provide a free education for black students.

"In 1849 Charles Sumner helped Sarah C. Roberts to sue the city of Boston for refusing to admit black children to its schools. Their case was lost but in 1855 Massachusetts legislature changed its policy and declared that "no person shall be excluded from a Public School on account of race, colour or prejudice."

Source: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAslavery.htm