A Brief Overview

Dr. Daina Ramey BerryUT Austin

A Brief Overview

Dr. Daina Ramey BerryUT Austin

West African Coast

West African Coast

Triangular Trade

Middle Passage

Plans of the British Slave Ship, Brookes (1789). Library of

Congress.

Slave Deck of the Bark “Wildfire” (Harper’s

Weekly, 1860)

Slavery vs. Indentured Servitude

Slavery in the North

African Burial Ground, in Lower Manhattan,

NYC. www.nps.gov

Sojourner Truth of Ulster

County, NY.Reverend Richard

Allen of Philadelphia, PA.

Gradual Emancipation in the North

Source: www.slaveryinamerica.org/geography/slavery_abolition_us.htm

David Walker’s Appeal (1829)

Walker’s Appeal proved controversial in the

South. In fact, Georgia officials offered a bounty

of $1,000 for Walker’s dead body and $10,000 if found alive. Northern

pacifists and abolitionists such as

William Lloyd Garrison attacked the pamphlet

for its advocacy of violence

Slavery in the South

Louisiana slave, Gordon, is photographed with a scarred

back in 1863. Library of Congress

Five generations of an enslaved family, Beaufort,

SC, 1862.

A Virginia nursemaid,

1859.

“King Cotton”

The Compromises Over Slavery

Sectionalism & Slavery

Radical AbolitionistJohn Brown

President Abraham

Lincoln and the founding

of the Republican

Party in 1854.

The Brooks-Sumner Canning Incident (1856)

Dred Scott v. Sanford• Dred Scott --Missouri Slave

• In 1846, he sued for his freedom because his master took him to Illinois which was a free state.

• By 1857, Scott’s case reached the U.S. Supreme Court which ruled that residence on free soil did not allow slaves freedom and that Congress did not have the authority to prohibit slavery in federal territories.

• Justice Roger B. Taney wrote in the decision that blacks “had no rights which a white man was bound to respect.”

Slavery on the Eve of the Civil War

The Demise of Slavery

Thomas Nast, “Emancipation,” Harper’s Weekly, January 24, 1863

(wood engraving).

On January 1, 1863, Pres. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.