SLAVERY IN AMERICA

Estefana Moreno
Diana Carrascal
CONTENTS:
1. THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY IN THE US
2. SLAVERY IN THE NORTH
3. SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH
4. SLAVES INSIDE BRITAIN
5. LEGAL STATUS OF SLAVES AND
BLACKS
6. SALE, HIRE AND TRANSPORTATION
OF SLAVES
7. ABRAHAM LINCOLN
1. THE SPREAD OF SLAVERY IN US
SPANIARDS WERE THE FIRST OF THE
COLONIAL MASTERS TO INTRODUCE
AFRICAN SLAVERY INTO THE NEW
WORLD.
16th century: Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Santo
Domingo & Chile
16th & 17th centuries: Mexico & Peru
19th century: Cuba

DEMOGRAPHIC CALCULATIONS FROM
CENTRAL MEXICO (16th C.)
Year Population
1519 27 650 000
1532 16 800 000
1580 1 900 000
1595 1 375 000
1605 1 075 000

Why black African slaves?
They thought black African were:
Infidels
Culturally inferior
Racially inferior

SLAVES IN THE NORTH
Less extended

They preferred to hire servants

Anti-Slave Sentiment

The percentage of slaves was never much
above 5%

The Northern States were pioneers in the
abolition of slavery, being Vermont the first
state which did it(1777)



SLAVES IN THE NORTH
SLAVES IN THE SOUTH
SLAVES IN THE SOUTH
Population of the South 1790-1860
by type
Year White Free Nonwhite Slave

1790 1,240,454 32,523 654,121
1800 1,691,892 61,575 851,532
1810 2,118,144 97,284 1,103,700
1820 2,867,454 130,487 1,509,904
1830 3,614,600 175,074 1,983,860
1840 4,601,873 207,214 2,481,390
1850 6,184,477 235,821 3,200,364
1860 8,036,700 253,082 3,950,511

SLAVES IN BRITAIN
Early Middle Ages Serfdom

Last Decades of Middle Ages Queen
Elizabeth I

Great Britain joined the slave market

Slavery in Great Britain was never authorized
by any statute or law.

It was forbiden in 1772.



TREATMENT OF SLAVES
TREATMENT
SLAVE CODES:
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, definition of a
slave:

a human being, who is by law deprived of
his or her liberty for life, and is the property
of another.
George M. Stroud
A Sketch of the Laws Relating to Slavery
"Slaves had no head in the state, no name, title or
register: nor could they take by purchase or
descent; they had no heirs, and therefore could
make no will: whatever they acquired was their
master's: they could not plead nor be pleaded
for, but were excluded from all civil concerns
whatsoever: they were not entitled to the rights
and considerations of matrimony, and, therefore,
had no relief in the case of adultery: they could
be sold, transferred, or pawned as goods of
personal estate "
Virginia Slave Laws

"Negro womens children to serve according to the
condition of the mother. WHEREAS some
doubts have arisen whether children got by any
Englishman upon a negro woman should be
slave or free, Be it therefore enacted and
declared by this present grand assembly, that all
children borne in this country shall be held bond
or free only according to the condition of the
mother, And that if any Christian shall commit
fornication with a negro man or woman, he or
she offending shall pay double the fines imposed
by the former act"
Virginia Slave Laws
"An act about the causal killing of slaves. WHEREAS
the only law in force for the punishment of refractory
servants resisting their master, mistress or overseer
cannot be inflicted upon negroes, nor the obstinacy of
many of them by then violent means suppress, Be it
enacted and declared by this grand assembly, if any
slave resist his master (or other by his masters order
correcting him) and by the extremity of the correction
should chance to die, that his death shall not be
accepted by felony, but the master (or that other
person appointed by the master to punish him) be
acquit from molestation, since it cannot be presumed
that presumed malice (which alone makes murder
felony) should induce any man to destroy his own
estate"
Sale, Hire, And Transportation Of Slaves
1. HOW DID THIS STARTED


2. SALES OF SLAVES


3. HIRING OUT SLAVES


4. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
1. HOW DID THIS HAPPENED


An account of reasons and causes
Impact of this practice
2. SALES OF SLAVES
Laws were prepared
Slave sellers were protected
The product had some guarantees
3. HIRING OUT SLAVES
Free people workers VS Slaves
Laws protected free men
4. THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
Conditions:
- Packing
- Hygine
- Death
- Food
- Diseases
ABRAHAM LINCOLN
"That southern slaveholders were
neither better, nor worse than we
of the north, and that we of the
north were no better than they.
And we never ought to lose sight
of this fact in discussing the
subject."
Abraham Lincoln
ELECTION TO CONGRESS IN 1854 &
MEXICAN WAR EXPANSION OF
SLAVE TERRITORY?
He was opposed to black equality and had
no intention of disturbing slavery in slave
states.
He recognized that slavery was wrong and
should not be allowed to spread to new
states.
What was his opinion about slavery???!!!
"A house divided against itself
cannot stand. I believe that
this government cannot
endure permanently half slave
and half free."
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