Abolition and Emancipation Flashcards

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Slave trade illegal in all of Americas Atlantic ports

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1830

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F. Williams “Capitalism and slavery” quote

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“Mercantilism lay behind the rise of the Atlantic slave trade, mature capitalism caused its fail.” Although this idea is disliked by many British historians as emancipation was counter to British economic interests. They say it was moral right not capitalism (economic theory).

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Abolition of slavery in all British possessions

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1833

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Statistics on how many slaves were shipped over the Atlantic

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12 million over 4 centuries

2.5 million after 1808 carried over the Atlantic.

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American colonization society

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Est.1817 by Robert Finley.

Sierra Leone - Charles Mercer - “colonize the free people of color” 1847 –> republic of Liberia

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Emancipation Proclamation

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Allowed enlistment into the U.S. Army of African slaves - by the end of the war 200000 have done so.

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Abolition and Africa quote presenting the problem

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As land was mostly the property of the state, slaves were property out of necessity. As one African family head confessed : “ slaves are our hands and feet”

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Peonage

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The use of laborers bound in servitude because of debt.

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Indenture statistics China

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125,000 indentured chinease sent to Cuba between 1847-74

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Slavery and its abolishment in French colonies

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1848 - slave owners compensated 120 mln francs

All former slaves made French citizens, vote given to men.

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Anti-slavery society by William Wilberforce and Thomas Clarkson

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1823

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Birmingham Ladies Antislavery Association

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1828 - two dimensional emancipation. Working for both abolition and women’s civil rights.

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1833 Emancipation Act

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73 women’s groups agains slavery sent petitions to parliament.
Act Fred 777,000 slaves in 19 colonies, most of them Caribbean.
Set up apprenticeship program for transition to wage labor.

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World Anti-Slavery Convention

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1840

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Seneca Falls Convention

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1848 - the first women’s rights convention that passed a resolution in favour of women’s sufferage

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Slave rebellions in US

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Denmark Vesey, South Carolina, 1822

Nat Turner, Virginia,1831

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La Amistad case

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1839-40

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Compromise of 1850

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California enters into Union as a free state with one pro and one anti-slavery senator.
Toughening of Fugitive Slave Law. “Reign of terror” - Fugitive slave.

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Kansas-Nebraska act

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1854 - repealed Missouri compromise.
State residents decide by voting whether slave or free - squatter sovereignty.
Proponents of both sides pour into Kansas from elsewhere.
“Bleeding Kansas” - proxy for civil war to come. John Brown.

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American Anti-Slavery Society.

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1833

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Abolitionists & religion

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Evangelical roots –> Quakers

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Angelina Grimke to Catherine Beecher

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‘The breaking of every yoke, for everyone” - slaves, women etc.

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Contagious Diseases Acts

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1864-69 - arrest any woman as a suspected prostitute, force check for venereal disease.

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The Durham report

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1837

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Jim Crow laws

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Racial segregation laws enacted after the reconstruction period in Southern United States

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Dred Scott v Sandford ruling

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Neither he nor any other person of African Ancestry could claim citizenship in the United States,