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The Slave System

This overview explores the grim reality of enslaved Africans in America from 1500 to 1890, highlighting the forced migration of 13 to 17 million individuals, predominantly to Latin America. With the outlawing of slave importation in the USA in 1808, the plight of slaves persisted. Most worked tirelessly as field hands, enduring harsh punishments. Slave culture, expressed through spirituals and folktales, provided solace. Resistance took many forms, including escapes and uprisings like Nat Turner’s Rebellion in 1831, which intensified the brutal enforcement of slave codes.

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The Slave System

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  1. The Slave System 12.4

  2. Unwilling Immigrants • Between 13 – 17 million Africans were taken between 1500 – 1890 • Most ended up in Latin America • In 1808, Congress outlawed the importation of Slaves into the USA

  3. Slaves & Work • Most slaves were field hands. • Worked from dawn to dusk in heat & ice • House slaves lived in better conditions, but were always on call • Driver: an overseer, often another slave, who forced others to work.

  4. Slaves were considered Property & endured many punishments & torture

  5. Slave Culture Helped them Cope • Spirituals: Emotional Christian songs with African rhythms • basis of American popular music • Folktales: African stories retained in a rich oral tradition.

  6. Resistance • Slaves did many things to resist their masters. • Many tried to escape • Many violent slave uprising occurred between 1620 - 1860

  7. Nat Turner’s Rebellion (1831) • Bloodiest slave uprising in US History. • 100 slaves & 60 whites killed in Virginia • Led to harsher slave codes that prohibited reading

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