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=== Slavery === | === Slavery === | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:abolition/ abolitionism/ abolitionist| from "abolish" for "to end" or "get rid of" slavery; the movement had various origins and directions; primarily it was a result of the American Revolution's call for equality of men; Christianity similarly informed abolition with the view of "brotherhood of man" and that all men are God's creation, including slaves; women's rights movement naturally allied with abolition in terms of a search for equality among all elements of society}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:American Anti-Slavery Society| starting in 1830s, dedicated to ending slavery; the Society held conventions and published literature and pamphlets, which it distributed across the South in the "great postal campaign" of 1835; in 1840 William Lloyd Garrison insisted that the Society embrace the cause of women's rights, which divided the movement}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:American Colonization Society| formed in 1816, sought to move free blacks from the United States back to Africa; the first American colony, Liberia, was founded for the project, with just under 5,000 American blacks migrating there by 1843, and with another c. 10,000 moving by 1865; the movement was run by a coalition of reform-minded slave-holders and anti-slavery abolitionists, including Quakers and other religious abolitionists;}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:amalgamation|means racial mixing and intermarriage, which most whites across the country opposed; "amalgamation" is the same as "miscegenation"; note that "anti-miscegenation" laws remained in effect in some southern states until the 1960s}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:amalgamation|means racial mixing and intermarriage, which most whites across the country opposed; "amalgamation" is the same as "miscegenation"; note that "anti-miscegenation" laws remained in effect in some southern states until the 1960s}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:coastal trade| slave trade routes that moved young black male slaves, especially, from mid-Atlantic slave state coastal cities to New Orleans, where they were sold into forced labor on sugar plantations; the coastal slave trade was "visible" in that slaves were auctioned at the port cities and put on vessels with manifests detailing their cargo/slaves; so emancipation activists identified and publicized this trade}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:gag rule|in 1836 the House of Representatives adopted a rule that "tabled" (set aside) any anti-slavery proposals; it remained in force until 1844}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:emancipation| freeing of slave; "emancipation" is the larger movement of argument for and act of freeing slaves; }}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Gabriel's Rebellion| 1800 slave revolt in Richmond, Virginia that was instigated by an educated black slave named Gabriel; inspired by the Revolution, manumission of slaves occurred in Virginia, leading to a growing free black population, which was augmented by free blacks from Haiti who had escaped the ongoing revolutionary crisis there (many of whom were themselves slave holders in Haiti); trained as a blacksmith, and having liberty of movement on behalf of his slave owner, Gabriel organized a rebellion and prepared weapons for it; word of the rebellion leaked out and Gabriel and 70 of his co-conspirators were caught; he and 23 others were hanged; the episode demonstrated the ideological power of the Revolution and its limits }}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:gag rule| in 1836 the House of Representatives adopted a rule that "tabled" (set aside) any anti-slavery proposals; it remained in force until 1844}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:Fugitive Slave Act of 1793|empowered slave owners and bounty hunters to seize even suspected runaway slaves and return them to slavery}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:Fugitive Slave Act of 1793|empowered slave owners and bounty hunters to seize even suspected runaway slaves and return them to slavery}}</ul></li> | ||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:inland system| slave trade from middle-Atlantic states to the South and southwestern states primarily for cotton plantations; this trade was less visible than the coastal trade, but moved upwwards a million slaves from the middle states to the deeper South}}</ul></li> | |||
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:manumission|the act of freeing a slave}}</ul></li> | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:manumission|the act of freeing a slave}}</ul></li> | ||
* Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831 | * Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831 | ||