THE ATTACK on SLAVERY

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THE ATTACK on SLAVERY
How did opponents attack the institution of
slavery? How did Southerners defend slavery?
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The Founding Fathers Slavery

• A necessary evil
• Protected in the Constitution
• Believed it would die out

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Slavery and the Family
Slave families unstable sold / broke up
families as punishment Auctions
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• Whipping is another form of punishment

Whipping another common form of punishment
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Uncle Toms Cabin (1852)

• Bestseller Awakened Northerners to horrors of
  slavery
• Eliza (heroine) and her baby run away from the
  evil Kentucky master Simon Legree to prevent
  being separated at auction
• Another slave, saintly Uncle Tom, is sold down
  the river and beaten to death by Legree

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Uncle Toms Cabin

• Anti-Slavery Themes
• Breakup of family
• Immorality of slave owners

Dramatic scene where Eliza jumps across ice floes
in the Ohio River to get to Ohio (free state)
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Slave Revolts

• Southerners lived in constant fear of slave
  revolt. Some famous ones
• 1800 Gabriels rebellion (VA)
• 1822 Denmark Veseys uprising (SC)
• 1831 Nat Turners Rebellion (VA)

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Nat Turner (1831)
God told him to kill white men free
slaves Led 40 slaves Killed 55
whites Abolitionists saw it as a sign that
slavery would end. Southerners reacted by
defending slavery harsher slave restrictions

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The Impending Crisis of the South (1857)

• Hinton Helper Southern hater of slavery and
  blacks
• Used statistics - showed slavery hurt the
  non-slave-owning white majority of the South.
• Popular book in the North, ignored/burned in
  South.

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Southern Defense of Slavery

• 1.) Civilizes inferior Africans
• 2.) Gentler than Northern city life
• 3.) Its a constitutional right

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The Reaction Cannibals All (1857)

• You (industrialist) with the command over labor
  which your capital gives you, are a slave owner
  a master without the obligation of a master.
  They who work for you, who create your income are
  slaves, without the rights of slaves. Slaves
  without masters!

What is the main idea from Cannibals All?
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How is slavery justified in this cartoon?
CARTOON 1
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How is slavery justified in this cartoon?
The Negro in his own country
The Negro in America
CARTOON 2