By Sara Emami

THE SLAVERY SOUTH (CONT.) 1820-1860

“VIRGINIAN LUXURIES,” ND. ANONYMOUS

AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY• Family

• Auctions

• Fictive kin

• Tribal culture

• Music, dance, spirituality

CHRISTIANITY•2nd Great Awakening•Lay preachers• Justice, salvation• “Call and Response”•Gospel•African American

Methodist Church, 1816

FREE BLACKS• Non-slaves in the South

• 6% of total Black population

• Laws limited their rights and citizenship, papers, no access to courts

• Most descended from blacks freed in Upper South

• Mainly manual labor

• Racial hierarchies based on skin color

RESISTANCE• Work slow

• “Sick”

• Break tools

• “Theft”

• Run away

• Rebellion

Gabriel Prosser

RESISTANCE• Run away slaves

• Over 1,000

• Upper south

• Canada

• West

GROUP ASSIGNMENTIn your groups, read the primary sources in Chapter 10 and be prepared to discuss your findings. Spend 20 minutes doing this. We will be finish where we left off (Harriett Tubman’s Underground Railroad)

HARRIET TUBMAN• Underground Railroad

• Homes, barns, woods, trails north

• 19 missions

• 300 people

FAMILY ON UNDERGROUND RAILROAD

REBELLIONS

• Nat Turner, 1831

• Virginia

• Literate, preacher

• Killed 70

CONCLUDING THOUGHTS • Despite dependence on cotton and slavery, Southern

economy became more diverse

• Slavery in Upper South declined

• Immigration provided cheap & flexible labor

• Changes to economy made slave owners more worried

• More rebellions, abolitionists, Westward expansion, made slave codes more harsh

SHORT FILM ON HARRIET TUBMAN• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSdJh9WZDjs