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SlaveryIn
America
The first Africans in America arrived as slaves in
Jamestown, Virginia in 1619.
Slaves In America
Landing of Slaves in Jamestown, 1619.
Slaves were brought from Africa in ships like this one, and were seated right next to each other, jammed together, with no room to move.
The Slave Trade Following a
triangular route between Africa, the Caribbean, North America,
and Europe, slave traders delivered
Africans in exchange for
products.
After ships docked in the New World, slaves, displayed like livestock, were forced to
endure rough inspections from head to foot. Prospective buyers evaluated their teeth and
bones, pawing over them as if they were animals.
A slave market in Atlanta, Georgia ,
1864
LIFE AS A SLAVEHouse SlavesHouse slaves
often had easier lives than the
field slaves. They were cooks,
maids, servants, and nannies.
Field SlavesField SlavesSlaves were
bought to work inplantations,
where labor was intensive. They
worked from sunrise to sunset
every day.
When slave children reached the age of 12, they were
sent to work in the fields, where they worked from
sunrise to sunset, just like the adults.
Slaves were chained together when they walked to the plantations to
work. Slave owners felt they could deny basic human rights to their slaves.
The Slave Codes The Slave
Codes robbed the Africans of their freedom.
If slaves resisted the code, they
could be badly beaten, or even killed.
PUNISHMENT FOR SLAVES
Slaves were punished in
many ways. If a slave tried to run away, his foot, or leg would be cut
off.
The most common way of punishing a slave was by whipping them.
Peter, a slave from Louisiana, in 1863, shows scars that are a result of a whipping by his owner. It took two months to recover from this beating.
After beating and whipping their slaves, owners would sometimes
leave the slaves to die, as a lesson to others.
“Stocks” were used as a
common way of punishing
slaves.
The death-rate among slaves was
high. To replace their
losses, owners
encouraged their slaves
to have many children.
The Civil War
After the 1860 presidential election, the South seceded from
the Union and thus began the Civil War. The Emancipation
Proclamation of 1863 made the abolition of slavery an official war
goal, and it was implemented throughout the war.
The Ending of Slavery
With the ratification of the
Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in December 1865,
slavery was officially abolished in all areas of the
United States.
Thirteenth Amendment Section 1.
Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for
crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist
within the United States.
Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
LIFE AFTER SLAVERY When slavery
ended, ex-slaves were allowed to
wonder freely, but they still
didn’t have the same rights as everyone else.
Efforts to re-enslave the freed
men led Congressional Republicans to seize control of the country’s
“Reconstruction” from President
Andrew Johnson, a strong supporter
of slavery.
The Fourteenth Amendment Representatives from the former
Confederate states and their Congressional delegation, pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and write the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution to extend citizenship rights to African Americans. They
were now guaranteed equal protection under the law.
Frederick Douglass
was one of the foremost
leaders of the abolitionist movement,
which fought to end slavery within the
United States, even before the Civil War began.
America was the only region in the western hemisphere in which slavery was overthrown
by force of arms, and the only region in which former slaves received
civil and political rights.
Even with the rights former slaves received, it was many years before anything really
changed for the better for black Americans, or has it.
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