Slavery In American History

(Created Equal 80). Though being enslaved as an African American in the New World was inevitable, most slaves were determined to fight back against such injustice even if it meant using violence to gain their freedom. The Stono Rebellion, (1739), was marked as the largest slave rebellion in the newly founded colonies. A first account reported by Lieutenant Governor William Bull stated, “a great number of Negroes arose in rebellion… [and] killed twenty one White Persons…burning several houses as they passed along the road” (VCE 58).

In 1860, after Abraham Lincoln won the presidency, the southern states did secede from the Union, which, along with the issue of slavery, triggered the Civil War. After the victory of the Union forces in the

There was a lot of rebellions against the slavery process. The south was terrified because of the slaveholders. The main slaveholder was Nat Turner and he had 75 black people and 60 white people and he got that in two days so the other slaveholders were terrified. They finally hated Turners Rebellion. He said he didn’t discipline them and then they figured out he did.

There were many different varieties of abolitionism during the nineteenth century. For many years, the only disapproval of slavery came from the Quakers, free blacks and slave. Most white Americans that wanted to abolish slavery also supported the deportation of freed slaves to the Central America, the Caribbean or Africa. In 1816, supporters created the American Colonization Society, this organization encouraged the slow abolishment of slavery and the colonization black in Americans in Africa. They later created Liberia on the coast of West Africa, where some free blacks did leave to.

Her actions made slave owners anxious and angry so they posted rewards for her capture. When the civil war had began she worked for the union army being a cook, a nurse, and as an armed scout. She was active while doing her jobs until her sickness overtook her and she had to go to a place where they put elderly African Americans that she established earlier. After her death she became one a the icons of the American courage freedom.

Abraham Lincoln died for civil rights when slavery was abolished when he signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1865, but still African-Americans were being discriminated and segregated form the whites. True equality was not shown until The Civil Rights Act of 1965 that desegregated schools, restaurants, and other locations in America was signed gave African-Americans a chance at true freedom and equality which is what America is supposed to mean. For 100 years the battle for civil rights was fought and came true, it took a nation to be divide to go to war with each other. It also started a huge movement in America in the 1960s that revolutionized a country and changed it forever. King believed in this change and was able to lead a movement and succeed with it.

Next is Frederick Douglass. Douglass was born into slavery in the early 1800s, only two years before Susan B. Anthony. After escaping slavery in Maryland, he took a brave step in publicly speaking to people about the abolition of slavery, women’s rights, and equality. It was risky, as he could be caught and forced back into slavery. He continued to speak though, and eventually became the Massachusetts and New York abolition leader.

The Atlantic slave trade was a monumental event in history which has had far reaching impacts on the world. It began with the Portuguese buying slaves off of rulers in coastal West Africa in the 15th century, but the remainder of Europe was quick to follow. The slave trade lasted for over 300 years, reaching its peak in the 18th century. Over the course of these years, it is estimated that over 12 million African slaves were shipped across the Atlantic to the Americas. This large scale and lengthy slave trade brought significant political, cultural, and economic change to the societies involved.

Slavery has been around for decades in English history, first beginning in 1562 spreading drastically throughout the colonies. African slaves helped build the new nation into an economic powerhouse through the production of very profitable crops such as tobacco and cotton. Although slavery mostly deals with the discrimination of African Americans, there is also an aspect of slavery that includes the mistreatment of animals. This period in history included a vast majority of animals that were bought, or stolen, by plantation owners to assist them in doing the dirty work on the fields. Animals who were enslaved did not get water to hydrate nor did they get food to eat.

Then in the election of 1852, the success achieved by Abraham Lincoln, a republican from the north, who was a supporter of the abolishment of slavery, became the directlt and immediate cause of the American Civil War. It was the first time in the history of the country that the president was elected by regional voting, which means that the United State was on the way to seperation. President Lincoln standed in a clear position that supported the abolishment of slavery thus cause the unsatisfiction of people in the

As humans we all want to be free which is why many slaves hoped every day that they could find a way to be free through any means or they would become very resistant. In 1739, Stone Rebellion took place which was an example of the frustration slaves were going through. The stone rebellion was 20 miles southwest of Charleston in South Carolina. Where slaves gathered, attacked a firearms shop, and headed south, killing more than twenty white people as they went. Until the white community set out in armed pursuit, and by dusk time half the slaves were dead and half had already escaped; most slaves who escaped were either captured or executed.

The enslavement of African servants has a long and dishonorable history in Pennsylvania. African Americans, both free and enslaved played a big role in the American Revolution fighting in both of the armies to benefit from such service. When Americans start creating legislation and constitutions they created a bill to abolish slavery. In these Northern states slaves were relatively unimportant to their economy. The expansion of the cotton industry from 1800 in the Deep South after intervention of the cotton gin led to Southern states to depend on slavery as to their economy.

The blacks in the north were allowed to organized and protest. Benjamin Franklin and Alexander Hamilton founded the Pennsylvania society for abolition and slavery in 1831. Also another fact is William Lloyd garrison publishes the first edition of the liberation England. Civil Rights and the Civil War Amendments wanted us to know about Dred Scott v. Sanford in regards to the “white slave owners did what they wanted with the black slaves , because they had no rights”(443). Illinois was a free state for blacks.

(Schultz, n.d.). The Confederate States of America were the first to willing withdraw from the Union as they tended to have more slaveholding families and the Northern territories were the last to withdraw from the Union as they tended to have fewer slaves. In order to prevent this from becoming a war John Crittenden and Abraham Lincoln tried to come up with several ways to compromise with the situation at hand. The first attempt was by John Crittenden with the Crittenden Compromise which was unsuccessful.

Eventually 56 slaves were caught and sentenced to death. After this, White mobs formed and killed over 200 slaves. Nat Turner was tried on November 5, 1831 and sentenced to death. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850, was an important part of the Compromise of 1850.