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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:chattel principle| or "bill of sale principle" that held slavery was property that can be bought and sold; this was the historic norm for slavery, but English common law rejected it, allowing some 17th century slaves to attain freedom, as well as through Christian baptism or purchase of one's own freedom; some slaves who gained their freedom themselves entered into slave holding and 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: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: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: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 | <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 upwards 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| }} | <ul><li>{{#tip-text:"positive good" argument| theory that southern white slavery of African blakcs was for their own good as they could through slavery benefit from white society }}</ul></li> | ||
* Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831 | * Nat Turner's Rebellion|1831 | ||
* Uncle Tom’s Cabin | * Uncle Tom’s Cabin | ||