chapter 16 Flashcards
Cotton gin
more cotton cultivation led to more enslaved labor needed
small-scale farming in the South
⅔ of white slave owners owned fewer than 10 enslaved people & often worked in the fields alongside them
slave resistance
Slowing the pace of labor to a bare minimum, stealing food or other goods, sabotaging equipment, poisoning/killing the master and/or family, running away
slave life
Most located in the Deep South. natural reproduction rate fueled the domestic slave trade, masters forced themselves on enslaved women, oppression (no civil or political rights), white overseer and/or Black driver kept enslaved people working, “Slave breakers” could be brought in to publish enslaved people, African roots visible in religious practices (mix of Christianity & African oral traditions)
rebellions: Prosser, Vesey, & Turner
Prosser (Richmond, VA, 1800) - large-scale rebellion planned by foiled; Prosser & 25 followers hanged
Vesey (Charleston, SC, 1822) - free Black person from Haiti whose plans seemed to be to get thousands of Black people to kill whites & take over the city; plans were leaked to authorities, & he & 30 followers were hanged (largest planned revolt, but might not have been planned)
Turner (VA, 1831) - escaped slavery but returned to lead a rebellion in which about 60 whites were killed. Turner & his followers were hanged
Free-Soil Party
Was against extending slavery to the western territories (they wanted the land to be open to white settlement: “free soil, free speech, free labor, free men”)
Harriet Tubman
escaped from slavery & became a “conductor” on the Underground RR
David Walker
abolitionist
Frederick Douglass
escaped from slavery & became a powerful voice for the antislavery movement
the Gag Resolution
Result from petitions pouring into Congress from antislavery reformers; the House responded with the Gag Resolution which required antislavery appeals to be tabled without debate.
