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<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: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:chattel principle| or "bill of sale principle" that held
<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: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:emancipation| freeing of slave; "emancipation" is the larger movement of argument for and act of freeing slaves; }}</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>
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<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: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>
<ul><li>{{#tip-text:"positive good" argument| }}
* Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831
* Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin