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SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES) - Coggle Diagram
SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES)
SLAVERY IN THE US (1619-1865)
12.5 million Africans kidnapped and brought across the Atlantic Ocean
almost 2 million didn't survive
black people had no rights
inferior to white people
for the Supreme Court 1857 they came from a "slave" race
BLACK AS A SLAVE RACE
SLAVOCRACY
10 of America's first 12
presidents were enslavers
hypocrisy
no mention of slavery in the Declaration of Independence
ENSLAVED PEOPLE'S CONDITIONS
In most courts, they had no legal standing
Could be raped or murdered by their
owners without
legal consequences
Could own nothing,
will nothing and inherit nothing
Could be legally tortured
Could be worked to death, and often were, in order to
produce the highest profits for the white people that
owned them.
RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
unalienable Rights
liberty
pursuit of Happiness
life
one-fifth of the population
struggled under system of slavery
Chattel slavery
racial
heritable
permanent
they passed on their slave status to their children
slaves were not human
but
property
BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION