Monday Nov. 9

Question 1

NEW MAJOR THEME

Answer 1

Slavery

Question 2

Remembering the past: How should we in the present remember the early American relationship between Europeans and Native Americans? (Ex. King Philip’s War)

Answer 2

War of 1812
-people’s own imagination (remember what they want to remember)
Phillips war
-switched from Adam and Eve –> savages and devils (Rowlinson book that describes her experiences)

Question 3

Slavery and the Union (economics)

Answer 3

Reluctance of historians
-stuck with scholarship is necessary, stories of nationhood an nationalism (how the nation relates itself)
Objectivity and honesty
-should not be simple, (good guys vs. bad)
-historical guilt is how history is told
Manning Clark
-middle road
-feel pity and love for all subjects
-forgive sins of past to understand them.
Community to remember past:
-heroes vs. villain
-not relating to it at all

Question 4

Brief history of Slavery (1400s)

Answer 4

Slavery in general

• late 15th century and continued for 400 years
• largest migration
• slavery in Europe died out in 14th century
• peasant were forced to stay–> work on farms
• Lord can imprison people on will

In Africa

• not same practice as 19th century
• captive of war, criminal punishment, selling self into slavery to pay debts (terms limits in Africa, had rights as well. educated work as advisor or soldier for kingdom)

SLAVERY EVOLVES OVERTIMES FROM AFRICA TO US

Transoceanic colonial empires
economics (1492)
-Mediterranean world to Atlantic world
-enslave people of new world–> indentured servants–> enslave people from Africa
-race issue develops overtime
-1600s slave codes supported by law (cannot obtain freedom, slavery brought through generation)
morality and commerce
-people turned into product
-value of people and nature become smaller to a degree
-people are not involved in just local but global commerce
-Ex. Sugar people might not know it came from Brazil.

Question 5

African and European Trade

Answer 5

Portuguese
-west coast of Africa (1440s)
-try to kidnap on own.
-too hard
-trade horses for slaves (West African Rulers) (gold pepper and ivory) (guns textiles from Europe)
-confined to coastal areas
-profitable to African and European Kingdoms
coffles=people grouped together to be sold as slaves
eat clay to kill themselves
Imprisonment= to keep them contained
Physical Exam (doctors evaluate how long they will survive)

Middle Passage
-4 to 6 weeks
-10-20% died of disease
-no room to move 
-slaves thought new world to be eaten.
-Rebellions
possibility 
killed immediately in front of everyone of those who started them
example: captain killed one plotters, other plotters had to eat his heart and liver 

Impact in Africa

• increase warfare
• African kingdoms needed more people
• African Kingdoms empowered by the supplies from Europe
• heavy depopulation

Question 6

The rise & fall & rise of slavery

Answer 6

Slavery in the English colonies
-idea of slavetraders: disgusting practice
-later became necessity
-Northern colonies do not rely on slave workers (later to ban practice
-Agriculture was big (depended on it)
Slavery on the wane in the early 1800s
-long stable cotton on coast (doesn’t grow inland)
-Short stable cotton hard to pick out the seeds
-Cotton gin invented

Question 7

The Cotton Kingdom

Answer 7

Long and Short staple cotton

Neither one a feasible cash crop

Cotton Gin

Cotton and slave labor
-slavery to expand with US..