A lot of these leaders were born into slavery and escaped, passing on powerful messages to the people to come together and fight for their rights. I found Fredrick Douglas to be a good example of one who was born into slavery. He had a slave mom and a white dad that resulted in him being sent to another plantation to be a servant because of his color. In 1838, Douglas escaped and became part of an Anti-Slavery Society in 1841. He gave a powerful speech on the fourth of July addressing his fellow African Americans called ‘What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July.’ He portrays how all of America celebrates Independence Day with their political freedom.
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade The Atlantic slave trade began in the early sixteenth century and extended all the way to the late nineteenth century. It involved the transportation of millions of Africans to the Americas. These Africans were forced to leave their countries in order to become the slaves of the newly found American colonies. Just the journey across the seas to the America’s was highly inhumane cramming hundreds of people onto small boats. The reason that the African slaves were needed was because they were strong and good workers.
In the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself, Frederick Douglass relives the memories that haunts his everyday life. Frederick Douglass “was born in Tuckahoe, near Hillsborough, and about twelve miles from Easton, in Talbot County, Maryland”. Frederick Douglass explains that he does not know the year he is born as well as how old he but speculates the year of his birth is around 1818. He does not know who his father is; however, he has overheard his mother, Harriet Bailey, say that his master was the one who got her pregnant. Slave owners often separated the mother and the child after birth.
Adams wrote a letter calling for a mass meeting to be held and thousands of people arrived at the Old South Meeting House. On December 16th 30-130 men left the meeting and ran to the harbor and destroyed 342 chests of tea into the war which is now known as the Tea Party. The Bengal Famine of 1770 was a catastrophic famine that affected the lower plain of India, Bangladesh and parts of Assam, Orissa, Bihar and Jharkhand. The famine occurred due to the British East India Company’s policies in Bengal. They raised taxes from 10-50% and starved the populace to get the maximum profits.
O.e.-was a prominent African involved in the British movement for the abolition of the slave trade. He was enslaved as a child, purchased his freedom, and worked as an author, merchant, and explorer in South America, the Caribbean, the Arctic, the American colonies, and the United Kingdom, where he settled by 1792. Mid Pass-The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[1] were shipped to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves; the slaves were then sold or traded for raw materials,[2] which would be transported
King Phillip’s war- war between Indian and English supporters of metacom and the colonists that killed 5% of colonists and twice as many Indians, including Metacom. The Indian population was decreased by 40% in southern England and eliminated resistance to white expansion 13. Indentured servants- people who come to America and work as a slave for an agreed upon number of years in return for freedom or property. They shaped the Chesapeake society until diseases killed them off 14. Virginia House of Burgesses and royal governor’s council- two chambers of legislature created in the 1650’s.
Ch.4 Sec 1: Slavery and Empire -Mercantilism realized: the triangular trade. -West Africa had become a thriving slave industry since the Portuguese had arrived while going to the West coast. Most slaves went to other destinations, like South America( Brazil), Caribbean and then some to the Americas. Very little of them went straight to North America. *The Ordeal of the Slave* -A state of perpetual terror: 1) first caught from her/ his tribe by the Europeans or another tribe.
David Walker – The Appeal (418) A freed black who published “Walker’s Appeal”; Declared “America is more our country than whites-we enriched it with our blood and tears.” “Slaves should cut their master’s throats”…”Kill or be Killed”24. Frederick Douglass (419) - The greatest African-American abolitionists of all, born a slave in Maryland, he escaped to Massachusetts in 1838. After returning in 1847 after spending 2 years in England lecturing, he bought his freedom from his Maryland master in 1847 and founded the North Star, an anti slavery newspaper.25. Amistad (420) - Africans destined for slavery took over the ship and attempted to return to Africa but the U.S. navy seized the ship and treated them as pirates. The Africans were declared free in 1841(one reason being that the slave trade was illegal by then), and anti slavery groups funded their passage back to Africa.26.
F.Q.R In Britain’s North America from the period of 1607 to 1776 there was slavery and how slavery started because of the demand for tobacco and sugar cane and the African Americans were the only ones who knew how to grow it. The first Africans that were sent to America were the ones in the Caribbean. The demand for slaves in North America helped expand the slave’s trade. As the slave trade expanded it also got more terrible. The Africans were brought here into filthy dark and were packed onto the ships also known as the “middle passage”.
Lord Dunmore in an effort to gain more manpower promised freedom to all slaves fighting for the Rebels. The British then had over 800 slaves join British Forces. These concerns were spoken of with clear disagreement by one of our founding forefathers Thomas Jefferson who wrote in a draft of the Declaration of Independence about the King and slavery, Jefferson stated “he [the king of Britain] has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit