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Class Conflict
- slavery was way to control social order
Pins two groups of White against each other
For the south, Race was deciding factor
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Pro-Slavery: Used bible as a way to prove slavery right

Religious:
Bible
- Leviticus 25: 44-46
- Ephesians 6:5
- Jesus Religious:
In the bible talks about Christian ways in which to treat slaves
Punishment/ Salvation (P to reach S)
- Through slavery Slaves are being taught Christianity

Noahs Curse (Ham/ Canaan) Genesis 9-10

- Noah drunk lying around in tent
- Ham - Canaan is the son
- Ham covered his father up when he was drunk and naked and
looked upon him
- Noah put curse on Ham
- Canaan is the black and then continues to slavery through
decedents
- association of Black and curses
- Inherently Inferior
- (Environmentalism Africa = Savagery )
Inherently
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DEFENDING SLAVERY
SLAVERY: RACIAL DEFENSE
-Better than Free Labor
-Religiously Sanctioned
-Black Racial Inferiority
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Free
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not

characteristics = inferior
- Size of the skull
- Cant move millions of slaves, stay in country as slaves

inferior
Looking at
Blacks
(Against)
Scientists.
Blacks do
have the
same
mental
capacity
Physical

Slavery is a Chrsitan institution and specific people, Black People

SLAVE LIVES AND COMMUNITIES
-Responce to Slavery
-Family Life
-Social Divisions

were being inslaved

Lundi, Novembre 16th:
- Defending Slavery = Defending the region
- Abe Lincoln
- One southern state after another leaves southern connection to
slavery
- Slavery from the Perspective of the slaves:
RESPONCES TO SLAVERY
PERSONALITY TYPES:
- Assimilated Slave
- Reluctant Slave
- Rebellious Slave

Slave owners emphasized kin extended family father figure

treated humanly and that most slaves were happy with their condition with
Paternalism
- Propaganda war
- Slaves had different view of Slavery
- saw Paternalism as Domesticated Animals
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fed like pigs & worked like dogs

- often compared because they were literally treated like them
- Often ate same food as animals on farm
- Animals around on plantation therefore easy to compare
- No legal claim to kids - like animals
- allowed to sell off their kids
- Treated as favorite pet
- Slave owners and slavery had very different views about the
institution of slavery
- Slaves responded to the institution of slavery in a variety of different
ways
- should be seen as a continuum
- for a lot of slaves: view on this changed over time
- assimilated slave:
- completely identified with masters world view
- deserving of slave status
- agreed with religious justification
- reluctant slave:
- *most common
- least talked about
- not content with slave status
- didnt buy into assimilated views
- didnt under-mind or rebel either
- rebelled, if they did, in little ways
- breaking tools
- stealing food
- House servants:
- silent sabotage
- spitting in the masters food
- Dont fundamentally challenge the institution of slavery
- Confronting whites
- unplanned encounters
- assault their master/ position in power
- pushed too far > lash out
- Woman: forced to have sex with someone
- Boyfriend or her would lash out
- Selling of a family member
- Sometimes events were planned:
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Arsin
- Accidents
- Leaving water on the steps so a master might slip
- Running away:
- Most slave owners expected this to happen occasionally
- Temporary:
- Most
- response to a specific situation
- hide on the plantation for a little bit
- denied visiting privileges > go to them
- Permanently
- Go to the North
- Many of escapes stayed in the south
- Harriet Tubman
- hid in an attic for long time
- Run away to urban areas
- to free black population
- Blend in so no one knows they are fugitives
- MAROON COMMUNITES:
- attempt by slave to make communities
- Only african american communities
- Someone unsettled
- West
rebellious slave:
- rejected slave status
- run away permanently
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SLAVE RESISTANCE
- Forms of Slavery
- Nat Turners Rebellion

organize slave rebellions

Mercredi, Novembre 18th
- Slaves had various forms of interference
- Southern US would emerge to have largest slave pop on Western
Hemisphere
- No large scale rebellions WHY?
- Difficultly with forming a slave rebellion
- 4 million enslaved peoples.
- Still Outnumbered by White Majority
- Brazil, Caribbean, Haiti = Black Majority (As much as ration 10/1)
- White population in South more closely supervised this population.
- Absentee Plantation Owners
- August, 1831: marks dividing line
- when attemptive rebellions were more likely to occur vs not occur
- More laws put in place
- More done to ensure rebellion did not occur
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NAT TURNERS REBELLION TOOK PLACE THIS YEAR

- Jerusalem, Va
- This story embodies lotes of fears of Slave Behaviors
- Nat Turner
- litterate
- had education
- Used his education to try and overthrow slave system
- Religious
- Protestant: Believed you should be able to read the bible
- able to interpret to their own ends
- Actually Lives to tell the tale.
- story of exodus
- liberating slaves
- Rebellion kills about 60 white people
- Turner and others able to hide out for few months
- In the Mean time
- Whites went on rampage killing black people

SLAVE FAMILIES
- Slave Family Characteristics
- Gender and Slavery

Killed around 200 Black People

Family life keeps slaves collected
Could have multi generations
Women have 7-8-9 kids
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But in ONE SMALL CABIN

- Women & men generally did same work on field
- Women were more likely to work in house
- Men > Blacksmith (Trade)
Drivers
- economic property
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MASTERS & SLAVE FAMILIES

- Limits of Slave Autonomy
- Limits on ability to Create or Maintain
Families

sexual property
Lundi, Novembre 23rd
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SLAVERYS DEMISE
2ND ANTI-SLAVERY MOVEMENT
(1830-1861)
Major Approaches
- Moral Suasion
- Political Anti- Slavery
- Direct Action
Black Anti-Slavery Activism
1880s Sectional conflicts
Disunion
Mercredi, Novembre

-MORAL SUASION
william Lloyd Garrison
- Major Leaders/ Groups
- Early Common agenda

Improve the condition of Free blacks

Agenda:
- End Slavery/ Slave trading
- End racial prejudice
- Use non-violence, moral suasion
- persuade to change mind
DEBATING SLAVERY
- North vs South
- Key Slavery Debates
- 2nd Anti-Slavery Movement
step that leads to the eventual end of slavery
Owning human beings a Christian thing to do?
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two sides:
- No:
- Arguments:
- religious:
- golden rule (do to others what you want done to you.
supreme)
- Implied that slavery is wrong
- Would you treat your brother this way?
- Argued that it is an inalienable right to negotiate your
employer your working conditions, pay, who your employers is
- If you don't like or agree you have the right to eave and to
find another employer
- [ matthew 7:12 ; Luke 6:31 ]
- Free Labor
- Racial [Environmentalism]
- Yes
International effort to rid slavery globally
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