The Atlantic Slave Trade: Crash Course World History #24

Slavery in America - Black History The South would reach the breaking point the following year, when Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln was elected as president. Within three months, seven southern states had seceded to form the Confederate States of America; four more would follow after the Civil War (1861-65) began. Though Lincoln’s antislavery views were well established, the central Union war aim at first was not to abolish slavery, but to preserve the United States as a nation. Abolition became a war aim only later, due to military necessity, growing anti-slavery sentiment in the North and the self-emancipation of many African Americans who fled enslavement as Union troops swept through the South. Five days after the bloody Union victory at Antietam in September 1862, Lincoln issued a preliminary emancipation proclamation, and on January 1, 1863, he made it official that “slaves within any State, or designated part of a State…in rebellion,…shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free.”

ELAR: The Life of Plantation Field Hands (Analyze a Primary Source) Introduction James Stirling, was a British writer who visited the American South in 1857. He wrote a book – Letters from the Slave States – which contains interviews plantation owners and former slaves. Source In judging of the welfare of the slaves, it is necessary to distinguish the different conditions of slavery. The most important distinction, both as regards numbers and its influence on the well­being of the slave, is that between house­servants and farm or field­hands.

Transatlantic Slave Trade The transatlantic slave trade is unique within the universal history of slavery for three main reasons: its duration - approximately four centuriesthose vicitimized: black African men, womenand children the intellectual legitimization attempted on its behalf - the development of an anti-black ideology and its legal organization, the notorious Code noir. As a commercial and economic enterprise, the slave trade provides a dramatic example of the consequences resulting from particular intersections of history and geography. It involved several regions and continents: Africa, America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Indian Ocean.

Children and Youth in History Colleen A. Vasconcellos, University of West Georgia Introduction ELAR: 5 Poems by Anne Bradstreet, Colonial American Poet By Nava Atlas | On August 19, 2018 | Comments (0) Anne Bradstreet (1612 – 1672) was one of the most prominent early American poets, and the first writer in the American colonies to be published. Following is a selection of five poems by Anne Bradstreet, most written in the 1650s and 1660s. At a time when it was considered unacceptable for women to write, Anne rejected the prevailing ideas of women’s inferiority. Abduction from Home Slave ships were large cargo ships specially converted for the purpose of transporting slaves, especially newly purchased African slaves to the Americas. The most significant routes of the slave ships led from the north-western and western coasts of Africa to South America and the south-east coast of what is today the United States, and the Caribbean. As many as 20 million Africans were transported by ship.[1] The transportation of slaves from Africa to America was known as the Middle Passage. The African slave trade was outlawed by the United States of America and the United Kingdom in 1807. The applicable UK act was the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act and outlawed the slave trade throughout the British Empire.

ELAR: Teach Dear America; Connecting Colonial America with the Dear America Historical Fiction Books Colonial settlers came to America for many reasons. Some came for religious freedom. Some came to make money. They settled into 13 colonies, areas that are now the states known as New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Maryland, Georgia, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware. There were other scattered colonies like St. The British Involvement For well over 300 years, European countries forced Africans onto slave ships and transported them across the Atlantic Ocean. The first European nation to engage in the Transatlantic Slave Trade was Portugal in the mid to late 1400's. Captain John Hawkins made the first known English slaving voyage to Africa, in 1562, in the reign of Elizabeth 1. Hawkins made three such journeys over a period of six years. He captured over 1200 Africans and sold them as goods in the Spanish colonies in the Americas. To start with, British traders supplied slaves for the Spanish and Portuguese colonists in America.

ECONOMICS: Money in Colonial Times - Philadelphia Fed Home > Education > Resources for Teachers > Additional Resources > Money in Colonial Times Introduction A shortage of money was a problem for the American colonies. England did not supply its colonies with sufficient coinage and prohibited them from making their own.