Thursday, October 3, 2024

Presentations

The Acts of Pro Slavery 

  • Fugitive slave act
    • Unable to testify
    • 14 years
  • Bleeding Kansas 
    • Preview 
    • Divide in country over slavery 
    • Kansas and Nebraska act 
      • Douglass
      • Territory of Kansas and Nebraska
      • Popular sovereignty
    • John Brown
      • Abolitionist - through violence 
      • Holy war 
      • Kill for cause 
    • Kansas free state 
    • Preview of larger conflict
    • Not just political issue - moral 
  • Nullification crisis 
    • Tariffs, laws 
    • Make slavery hardship
  • Succession of South Carolina 
    • Last stand to keep slaves
    • War fight for slaves way of life 
    • Largest pivot points of war 
      • Major step towards revolution 
  • Battle of Fort Sumter 
    • Confederate states 
    • April 11
      • Refused help 
      • Prepared for military assault 
    • 34 hours 
    • Casualties, low on ammunition 
    • Shocked North 
Anti-Slavery Events
  • Underground railroad
    • Not physical 
    • Symbol - resistance 
    • Routes to help escape
    • Freedom in North and Canada 
    • Neither underground or railroad
    •  Bravery / sacrifice 
    • Tubman, Douglass, Still
    • Terminology
  • Taught by Morgan Rosser 
    • Newspapers 
    • The North Star
      • Pushing for immediate abolition 
      • "Right is of no sex - Truth is of no color"
    • The Liberator 
      • WLG
      • Abolition and social obstacles 
  • The Amistad Case
    • Slaves kidnapped and packed on ship 
    • Ended up in NY 
    • Piracy and murder 
  • American Anti-Slavery Society
    • Garrison, Purvis 
    • Abolished in British 
    • First of kind 
    • All men created equal 
    • A lot of people against 
    • Printing 
    • Disagreements 
      • Nationwide abolition 
      • Allow women to have active roles 
    • 1870 - dissolved
  • Slavery Rebellions and Uprisings
    • Nat Turner 
      • Calling from God
      • 2 days, 2 nights 
      • Malicia 
      • Forced into hiding
      • Caught after 2 months
      • Hanged 
      • Aftermath
        • Hysteria 
        • White mobs swept through 
    • Haitian Revolution
      • Spanish and British
      • John Adams - support 
    • Abolishment of Slavery - Trans Atlantic
      • Shipped across Atlantic to be enslaved 
      • No leg room, snacks, might no survive
      • Fought back 
        • Revolts 
        • Chained and starving 
        • Equiano 
  • Nullification Crisis
    • Tariffs favor North, harm South
    • SC exposition protest
    • Jackson announced it unlawful

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