African American History

Servitude to Slavery

• Indentured servants- Virginia and Maryland before 1675– Head right system

• Bacon’s rebellion conflict between backcountry and tidewater gentry, -cause to revaluate indentured servants- move to slaves

• Beginning of slavery- tobacco

Plantations and Slave Trade

• Slave trade- middle passage- Brazil and Caribbean• Cultural practices brought from Africa• Tobacco in Chesapeake, rice in South Carolina• Development of Slaves in South due to

• Low supply of indentured servants• Spread of tobacco• Colonists begin to view bondage as morally wrong• Compete in slave trade

• Stono Rebellion- earliest slave rebellions – slaves in Charleston tried to flee to Spanish Florida

Abolition and Abolitionists

• Second Great Awakening• American Colonization Society• William Lloyd Garrison• Frederick Douglass• Harriet Beecher Stowe• Emancipation Proclamation• African Americans at war

Reconstruction

• Amendments: 13, 14, 15• Sharecropping• Black Codes• Compromise of 1877• Slaughterhouse cases and Civil rights cases

1888• Plessy v Ferguson• Booker T. Washington

Progressive Era

• WEB Du Bois- Social Equality, NAACP• Left out of Progress• Ida B Wells• Rise of KKK- Birth of a Nation• WWI- segregation

1920s

• Harlem Renaissance• Marcus Garvey

Great Depression/New Deal

• Shift in Voting• Eleanor RooseveltWWII• Homefront• Segregated units

1945-present

• Dixiecrats 1948• Brown v Board• Little Rock 9- Eisenhower• MLK Jr. -SCLC, Letter from Birmingham Jail, non-violence• Sit insSeparatists• Marcus Garvey ,• Malcolm X and Stokely Carmichael (SNCC)• Roy Wilkens- NAACP• Huey Newton- Black Panthers