LESSON 11: Slavery in America Flashcards
(15 cards)
1820
Upper South;
slavery is declining
1820-1860
slavery expanded
By 1860
half of the population in the lower South were slaves;
only 30% of the population in the upper South were slaves
By 1850
the South produced 75% of world’s cotton
DeBow’s Review
journal published in 1850;
demanded industrialization and economic diversification in South, without success
Stats on Slave Ownership
25% of white Southerners owned slaves
4% of white Southerners owned more than 20 slaves
21% owned less than 20 slaves
75% owned no slaves
Free Blacks
500,000 free blacks lived in America in 1860;
a little more than half were in the Upper South
Harriet Tubman
a runaway slave;
escaped from Maryland in 1848 to Pennsylvania;
freed 70-90 slaves;
became famous activist for the underground railroad
Frederick Douglass
powerful orator, wrote an autobiography and published “The North Star”
number of successful runaway slaves
100,000
Gabriel
a blacksmith slave;
planned uprising in Richmond, VA in 1800;
to lead an army (hundreds) and take Governor James Monroe hostage;
abolish slavery in response for his life
Denmark Vesey
organized a large conspiracy in Charleston, SC, 1822;
22 years after Gabriel’s uprising;
purchased freedom after winning lottery; used a black church to organize meetings;
betrayed, put on trial, and executed
Nat Turner
led last major rebellion in Southern Virginia, killed almost 60;
captured and stopped by militia;
put on trial and executed;
tightened the restriction on slavery even further
Between 1831 and the beginning of the Civil War
no major uprisings;
created slave patrols
Escape of Henry Brown
Henry Box Brown;
shipped himself from Richmond, VA to an anti-slavery office in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
