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SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES) - Coggle Diagram
SLAVERY IN AMERICA (HANNAH-JONES)
SLAVERY (1619-1865)
12.5 million Africans have been kidnapped from their homes
Largest forced migration in human history until the WW2
Almost 2 million didn't survived the journey
Before the abolishment of the slave trade 1808, 400.000 enslaved Africans would be sold to America
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE: says "We hold these truths to be self-evident,that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty,and the pursuit of Happiness"
enslaved people were not recognised as human beings but as property. chattel slavery was racial, heritable and permanent
Jefferson's fellow white colonists knew that black people were human beings, but their were ensured that enslaved people would never be treated as such
ENSLAVED PEOPLE
restricted from meeting privately in groups
no claim to their own children
weren't allowed to lern to read or write
no honour kinship
could not legally marry
no legal standing
could own nothing
could be raped or murdered without legal consequences
could be legally tortured
could be worked to death
SLAVOCRACY
•Some might argue that USA was founded not as a democracy but as a slavocracy.
•Jefferson and the other founders were keenly aware of this hypocrisy.
•There is no mention of slavery in the final Declaration of independence.
10 of the first 12 presidents owned slaves
RACIAL CASTE SYSTEM
black inferiority
black people were subhuman
AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
BLACK AS A SLAVE RACE
inferior to white people
incompatible with American democracy
not considered citizens
they had no rights