Day 62: The South and the Slave Controversy

1. Day 62: The South and the Slave Controversy Baltimore Polytechnic Institute November 30, 2012 A/A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green

2. A Portrait of the Reformers Objectives: Students will complete a role-play activity in order to evaluate the status of freed African Americans in the Antebellum Period. AP Focus The Second Great Awakening releases a torrent of religious fervor, combining a belief in moral self-improvement and a wish to expand democracy by means of evangelicalism. Religion and Reform are among the new AP themes. From the 1830s to 1850s, the nation experiences a burst of reform activity. Various movements set out to democratize the nation further by combating what they see as institutions and ideas that thwart the expression of democratic values and principles.

3. Chapter Focus Chapter Theme The spectacular religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening reversed a trend toward secular rationalism in American culture and helped to fuel a spirit of social reform. In the process, religion was increasingly feminized, while women, in turn, took the lead in movements of reform, including those designed to improve their own condition.

4. Announcements Continue your work on Presidential Election Charts 1836, 1840, 1844, 1848 Decades Chart for the 1840’s due Monday Quiz on Monday covering today and tomorrow

5. Warm-up Some southern slaves gained their freedom as a result of • the prohibition of the Atlantic slave trade after 1807. • purchase by northern abolitionists. • fleeing to mountain hideaways. • purchasing their way out of slavery. • the objection to slaveholding by some white women.

6. Free Blacks: Slaves without Masters • 250,000 free blacks in the South • Revolutionary War idealism • Mullatoes – children of white planters and slaves • Purchased freedom from after-hours work • Freed slaves had their own land • Had their own slaves in some cases • Couldn’t work certain jobs • Couldn’t testify against whites in court • Could be hijacked back into slavery • In the North-250,000 free blacks

7. Plantation Slavery • 4 million slaves in the South in 1860 • 1808 outlawed slave imports in U.S. • 1807 Britain abolished slave trade • British West Africa Squadron captured slave ships and freed captives • 3 million Africans shipped to Brazil and West Indies after 1807 • Smuggling into the south • Slaves as investments

8. Life under the lash • Living conditions varied by plantation • Flogging • Black belt • South Carolina and Georgia into Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana • More stable in deep South • Religion

9. Burdens of Bondage • Denied education • “Revenge” • Slow labor – fostered white myth of “black laziness” • Took food and other goods their labor helped make • Sabotaged work equipment • Poisoned owner’s food • Runaways, rebellions • Nat Turner • Amistad

10. Emancipated Slaves in the U.S. 1790-1850 • You will put yourself in the shoes of a freed slave woman and her family.

11. Write a Thesis Statement To what extent were freed slaves “free” in the period 1790-1850? Answer with respect to TWO of the following: Political Freedom Social Freedom Economic Freedom

12. Homework Finish reading all of Chapter 15 and begin reading Chapter 16 Work on those ID’s!!!