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UNIT IV
First StepsRead the prompt
Brainstorm for essay topics
Useful for pieces of evidence
Form THESIS
Look through documents
Plan Essay
PromptFrom 1775 to 1830, many African Americans gained freedom from
slavery, yet during the same period the institution of slavery expanded. Explain why BOTH of those
changes took place. Analyze the ways that BOTH free African
Americans and enslaved African Americans responded to the challenges confronting them.
What do we know?North - decrease in slavery
Freedom for slaves
Industrial - textile
South - increase in slavery
Higher demand
Agricultural - cotton
What else is there?
Rise of ABOLITIONISM/ANTI-ABOLITIONISM
Slave Codes & Fugitive Slave Acts
Slave Rebellions – Gabriel Prosser, Nat Turner
Slave Resistance
Underground Railroad
Liberia
Thesis StatementThe thesis can be one or two sentences!
Example: During the early years of America, slavery experienced growth in the South and a decrease in the North as a result of economic advances and new ideological developments. Out of these changes, both free and enslaved blacks responded in both violent and nonviolent manners.
Document A“... All indentured servants, Negroes, or others... are able and willing to bear Arms...”
Black enlistment
Proclamation of November 1775 - offered freedom to slaves who abandoned their rebel masters and joined the British
Increase in the number of free African Americans
Document B“... We have been deprived of enjoying the profits of our labor...”
“... We are not allowed the privilege of freemen... Yet many of our color have cheerfully entered the field of battle...”
Regardless of being free, blacks were still not treated as equals
Document C
Slavery in the North decreases significantly
Far higher concentration of slavery in the South
Document D
Importance of religion in black communities
Hope and Community
Document E“There is much gratitude due from our color towards the white people...”
Growth in abolitionism
“... Much depends upon us for the help of our color more than we are aware; if we are lazy and idle, the enemies of freedom plead it as a cause why we ought not to be free...”
Action must be taken to make changes
Document F“I asked my master one time if he would consent to have me purchase my freedom. He replied that he would.”
Slaves allowed to purchase their freedom
Slaves pursued freedom through working to pay for it
Showcases a slight shift in social ideology
Document G“... Mr. Prosser’s Gabriel wished to bring on the business as soon as possible.”
Eagerness for slave revolts
“... I read in the Bible where God says if we will worship Him we should have peace in all our land...”
Religious inspiration to take action
Document H“... One cent only, from each inhabitant of the State... establishing colonies on the coast of Africa...”
Many sought refuge elsewhere
“... To open a door for the gradual emancipation of the slaves... an effectual barrier against the continuance of the slave trade...”
Whites supported the freedom (and to some extent, relocation) of blacks
Document I“[(B)lacks must] bear up under the daily insults we meet... We are shamefully abused... Arrows of death are flying about our heads.”
“... Cuts and placards descriptive of the Negro deformity, are every where displayed...”
Discrimination is VERY prominent and equally dangerous
Document J“... What our friends have said or done for us... do not satisfy the Americans...”
Tensions between whites and blacks
“We must and shall be free I say, in spite of you...”
Willingness for opposition
Essay PlanningIntro
1st Body Paragraph - North
2nd Body Paragraph - South
3rd (4th) Body Paragraph - Response from Blacks
Conclusion