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Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Impact on Slaves B P.144-146 - Coggle Diagram
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Impact on Slaves B
P.144-146
Rebellion Against Slavery
Abolitionism was movement to end slavery & free slaves.
Many people thought slavery was cruel & should end.
Abolishment movement put pressure on gov to change law.
Slaves rarely rebelled.
White community outnumbered slaves in most places.
Slave owners had guns.
Gov use power to stop rebellion.
Slaves played large part in gaining own freedom.
1831 - Nat Turner
2 days - killed 60 white people.
Soldiers went after them.
Led group of slaves in attacks in Virginia.
They were captured, trailed & hung.
Religious visions guided him.
Rebellion made owners panic.
Turner was slave, could read & write.
100s local slaves killed by owners.
Nat Turner's revolt largest uprising in South.
1839 - Joseph Cinque
Had a wife & 3 children.
Illegally captured by Portuguese slave traders.
Born in W. Africa, rice farmer.
Trans-Atlantic slave trade already stopped.
They were taken to Caribbean, traded to Spanish slave traders (Ruiz & Montez).
Long court case, Africans won & sent back to W. Africa.
Put on ship called Amistad.
Plan to sell them to Cuban sugar plantation.
Africans taken to jail for mutiny & murder.
30 June 1839 - Cinque led a revolt on Amistad.
Ruiz & Montez told their side.
Captain & cook killed, 2 slaves died, 2 sailors escaped.
2 months later, ship arrived near New York.
Demanded to go back to W. Africa
At night, sailed to America.
Took Ruiz & Montez prisoner.
Underground Railroad
Run by many people, not single person/org.
'Conductors' - non slave black people, former slaves, white abolitionists & indigenous people.
It also consisted of meeting points & transport.
'Stations' - peoples homes, churches, barns, shops & shacks.
'Conductor' moved fugitives between stations.
Safe houses called 'stations', run by 'station masters'.
Slaves escaped towards the North.
They used railroad terms, to not be found out.
Routes often indirect, confuse slave owners.
Informal network of secret routes & safe houses.
Travel at night - 16-32km between stations.
It was not underground & not a railroad.
Travel on foot or bottom of wagons, sometimes boat or train.
Rest at day - in secret rooms or under bales of hay.