Daniela Masiariková

Oktáva 2010/2011

Slavery

The American Civil War

AbolitionismAntislavery societiesAbolitionists

• Ku Klux Klan

- Americans whose ancestors were born in Africa

17th century – the first Africans in America

Beginning in 1619 - Virginia

Spread to areas with good-quality soil for large plantations

• one of the principal issues leading to the American Civil War

At first: baptized slave is free then: slaves = property without any rightsvalue of the slave = 3/5 value of citizen

1861 – 1865

North x South

flashpoint of conflict: 1860 - Republican Abraham Lincoln was

elected in the presidential election

advanced

trade with Europe and Asia

industrial – factory production (metallurgy, steel, cotton textile industry)

antislavery

backward

agriculture - plantations (tabacco, rice, cotton, coffee, sugarcane)

profiting from the labour of slaves(350,000 slave owners owned 4,000,000 slaves)

slavery

Union was disintegrated

South created a new polity - Confederation States of America - president Jefferson Davis- capital city Richmond

• 1865 – the end of the war - South capitulated

During the 1830s – trying to reach and convert a mass audience

Antislavery society:

The African Colonization Society (1816)

– Liberia

The American Anti-Slavery Society (1833)

William Lloyd Garrison - The Liberator

Frederick Douglass

William Wells Brown

John Brown

1863 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation which declared freedom and liberation of black slaves in Union

1865 -The Thirteenth Amendment, which abolished the slavery, became part of the Constitution and slavery was eliminated of all States of the Union

in the southestablished in 1865 - against the

emancipation of slaves

advocated extremist reactionary currents (white supremacy, racism, anti-immigration, anti-semitism)

violence against blacks (hanging)

reformed in 1915 by William J. Simmons

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