http://www.hippocampus.org/US%20History%20I;jsessionid=85917529FB5F92DB9FDBA26132B2933C go to 1820-1860
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/ Pre-Civil War Set Up
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/slaveship.htm aboard a slave ship
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/ Underground Railroad
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/wpahome.html Slave Naratives
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html PBS Slavery Site
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3p1518.html Nate Turner
http://www.historybuff.com/library/refslave.html Turner
http://www.melanet.com/nat/nat.html Turner's confession
http://civilwar.bluegrass.net/secessioncrisis/constitutiononslavery.html Slaves and the Constitution
http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/respub/v6n1/boyd.html Constitution and Slavery
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/ Underground RR
http://historyteacher.net/AHAP/Weblinks/AHAP_Weblinks9.htm Can't find what you like, check out this list of websites.
http://www.freedomcenter.org/underground-railroad/ Underground RR
http://historyteacher.net/USQuizMainPage.htm Section 14 Quizzes
http://www.watson.org/~lisa/blackhistory/scott/ Dred Scott
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2952.html Bleeding Kansas
http://www.kancoll.org/galbks.htm Bleeding Kansas - Click to read letters
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/amliterature/amlit_lp_language_slaves.htm Slave Language
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snvoices00.html Slave Narratives
I read about the Underground Railroad and slavery on the plantation. Slaves would wake up every day and go to work at four in the morning. They would feed the stock until it was light enough to work out in the fields. Then they would work in the fields until around ten or eleven at night, depending on the light, and then go back to their houses until bed time. The slaves would eat breakfast in the morning and then work without breaks until night. An overseer was often hired to control the slaves during the day and whip them if they don’t work hard enough or if they’re late. Then when slaves escape, they have to move during the night and hide during the day. They could die by starvation because they can’t food or didn’t bring any with them. When they make it to the North, they aren’t yet home free. They still need to make it to Canada. People along the way have houses that slaves can go to, to hide, from the men and dogs in their path. When they make it to Canada they are free.
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ReplyDeleteI read about what its like to be on a slave ship, this is what i learned.
ReplyDeleteThe british parliament passed a bill prohibiting slave trade in 1807. The U.S. followed that suit by outlawing the importation of slaves on january the very next year. To enforce these laws the U.S. and Britain jointly patrolled the seas off the coast of Africa, stopping and confiscating suspected slave traders if slaves were found on board. If slaves were found, they would be transported back to Africa safely. Conditions were harsh among the slave ship, men, women, and children crammed into every space possible, while being denied adequate room, food or breathing space. If you ask me, these conditions are unbarrable and slaves deserve better. ("Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829," EyeWitness to History)
The time period is 1829, and the British parliament has done away with the slave trade. Ships still try to sell slaves but are breaking the law if they do so. The U.S. and Britain have sent ships to search suspected slave ships if indeed they have slaves. Ships have been found with 560 slaves or more. The crack down on slave trade is like the crack down on drugs.
ReplyDeleteThe voyage of the slave trade was as harsh as can be. The slavers would cram the slaves as tightly as possible, starting with woman and girls first, then the men and boys. Slaves were stacked on top of each other, so using the bathroom would make the slave under you suffer. The slaves where fed little food and water, but received little fresh air. Dead bodies were thrown overboard and many slaves did parish on the voyage.
I read about nat turner and his revolution. He was a black slave and became a preacher, so he was religious. He was planning a revolution until one day a halo was around the sun and he thought that was his queue to revolt, so him and a band of slaves that grew to about sixty or seventy people went around and killed about 50 Virginians. They were stopped when the militia came in and interveined, and after as revenge many whites went and killed over 100 blacks, some who were completely innocent. Nat turner managed to escape and was going to live in a cave ntil he was discovered, turned in, then sentenced to be hanged after admitting that what he did was wrong.
ReplyDeleteSlavery and the constitution has been an issue since the writing of the constitution itself. The three-fifths compromise shows that slaves count as population, when slaves are considered as property and cannot vote. If slaves are equal to cattle, then they should not hold as a 3/5 vote in politics. There for meaning that they are people who have rights to vote or are slaves and cannot count as people in the state’s population.
ReplyDeleteThe constitution explain what shall happen if a slave is to run away. If two states have different laws on slavery, then the place where the slave ran away from has not been relieved of his duty. This later brought slave catchers and new laws giving people fines for not turning slaves in. This is the boiling point for the civil war that makes people in America scared and angry.
Being on a slave ship is a horrible and a gruesome thing for the slaves. I read a account from a persons perspective that was on a ship working to catch and confiscate slave ships who describes the terrible conditions they are put through. Firstly, when he boarded no slaves were up top but instead all kept down bottom in a space of about 1088 square feet, while there was 562 total slaves, giving each person a little less than a square foot to themselves. He also describes the smell and lack of air and light underneath as being inhumane at the least. He also describes the heat above deck being about 86 degrees Fahrenheit and below deck much more making people sick from and dying from all these horrible factors. Also, once he lets the all above for some air it was hard to believe that many people were stowed away, and once some water was brought aboard and offered, they went into a frenzy fighting each other for some.
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