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20.2 North n South, Slaves and Fres |
-Fredrick douglass toured the north talking about slavery -to him, the biggest differences slaves and free blacks was there legal status. - free blacks had some rights by law. slaves did not
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Slaves' Legal Status |
-douglass reminded his listeners that the law defined slaves as property, not human beings -buy and sell slaves -many places you could not let slaves free -"In law,the slave has no wife, no children, no country, no home |
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Rural and Urban slaves |
-about half of all african americans lived in the south -labors,craftspeople, or household servents in towns and cities -free blacks were not able to own a gun; or travel freely; work sertain jobs -" no colored man is really free in a slave holding state" |
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Free blacks in the North |
-blacks treated with unequal treatment -87% of blacks had low payed jobs -black children were denied to get in to public schools |
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20.3:The Economics of Slavery |
-the invention of the cotton gin just threw out slaves jobs out the window - |
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20.4 Working Conditions of Slaves |
-most worked in field, others worked from blacksmith to cooking for masters -ages 6-till death |
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20.5 Living Conditions of slaves |
-masters viewed slaves the same as there land -"not to give a slave enough to eat" -"negro cloths"; shoes usually slaves rather go barfoot'' -chlidren naked -poorly doctors |
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20.6 Controlling Slaves |
-harshpunishment -beaten so bad that there bones would be sore |
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20.7 Resistance to Slaves |
slaves found countless ways to resist slavery |
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Day-to-day Resistance |
-quiet acts of rebelion -work sloppy, break tools , pusht down fences -pretend to be sick, clumbsy,dumb to not have to do the work -slaves would even slip poison in the masters food ; set fire to there homes |
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Open Defiance |
-they could take it too far and the master thinkes ther "unmanageable" |
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Running Away |
-slaves tried to run but masters would hire prof. slave hunters -could get killed or wiped - some mailed there way to freedom -there are many ways to become free |
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Rebellion |
-at times it would become violent rebellion -almost 30 slaves tried to protest and were caught and hanged -slaves had guns and were goning to kill every white person who walked by but instead 57 people was hanged -after this started to happen they were more stricked |
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20.8 Slave Families and Comunities |
-there was no families, offten would sperate families -it was hard to raise children and to legally get married |
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20.9 Leisure Time Activities |
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20.10 Slave Churches |
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20.11 African American Culture |
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