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SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES), SLAVOCRACY - Coggle Diagram
SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES)
SLAVERY IN THE US (1619-1865)
12.5 million africans kidnapped
two million didn't survive the journey
400,000 enslaved Africans would be sold to America
BLACK AS A SLAVE RACE
Black people are considered inferior to white people
They cannot be citizies
They have no rights
White man don't respect them
They are a separate caste
Incompatible with American democracy
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ENSLAVED PEOPLE'S CONDITIONS
law
Could be legally tortured
Couldn't legally marry
Couldn't own anything
no legal standing
according to society
no claim to their own children
Could be raped or murdered by their owners
Could be overworked to death
not allowed to learn to read or write
RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
Thomas Jefferson 1776:"Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness"
in contradiction with these words: brutal system of slavery
slavery was racial, heritable and permanent
COSTITUTION
protect who enslaved black people
federal government cannot intervent
allowed Congress to put down insurrections
forced states to turn over enslaved people
SLAVOCRACY
Jefferson and the other founders were keenly aware of this hypocrisy.
There is no mention of slavery in the final Declaration of independence.