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The American slave trade - Coggle Diagram
The American slave trade
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The voyage
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slaves were sitting in their own excrements 24/7, crowded together in chains
almost one in ten dies from diseases and most of the slaves developed testering wounds where the chains rubbed their skin, often with maggots eating at them
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some ended up in plantations, others in smaller farms.
most had to do extremly hard physical work many hours a day, in the fields, planting and picking cotton i.e.
slaves didn't have any legal rights. their children could be taken from them and the murder of slaves was not subject to the law, except for as destruction of another man's property
North vs. South
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north didn't have as much use for slaves, therefore easier to say they wanted to abolish the slave trade
no need for slaves in industrial north, smaller farms
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The civil war (1861-165)
to perserve the union, to abolish slavery
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1865, Confederates surrender
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the end of slavery
the north wins the cicil war and slavery was made illegal, announced by Abraham Lincoln
many slaves travelled to the North, some went back to Africa
masot slaves stayed in the South, doing the same work as before, only as hired work and not slaves
reconstruction
april 13th 1865, the assination of Lincoln
southern resistence to black rights, Black Codes
1866 Civil Rights Act, 14th amendment
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1877, reconstruction is over
poll tax, grandfather clauses, segregation, Jim Crow laws
Plessy vs. Ferguson 1896, seperate but not legal
Segregation made legal
After the Civil War most Southern states passed anti-African legislation (Jim Crow Laws, fex, Black men were not allowed to greet by hand with White men, bc it implied being equal). These lasted well into 1950s civil rights movement
segregation in resturants, theaters, hotels, cinemas, public baths, marriage, trains etc.