The End of Slavery Free at last

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The End of SlaveryFree at last?
1852 oil painting depicting the scene of a slave
market
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Slave Trade

• 1492 to 1820 three out of four new arrivals were
  African Slaves
• Many worked on Plantations sugar, cotton,
  tobacco, rice, coffee
• Until 1863 most Black people in America were
  slaves

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Triangular trade
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Middle Passage
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Sale and Purchase
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Slave Auction
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slavery

• In Lifelong bondage
• Inheritable
• Slaves were property
• No legal rights
• Free blacks were treated like second class
  citizens

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Frederick Douglas, 1818-1895

• Nation's leading 19th-century African American
  spokesman
• Made efforts to abolish slavery and for Human
  Rights, Equal Rights and Civil Rights for all
  oppressed people.

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Civil war 1861-5

• One of the reasons for the war was the question
  of slavery
• The Northern states The North did not want
  slavery the southern states the South did
• The North won the civil war and in 1863 slavery
  was abolished

Black union soldiers, 1863
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Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865

• Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United
  States issued an Emancipation Proclamation in
  1863 which FREED slaves living in America.

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End of slavery
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THE STRUGGLE FOR DIGNITY

• Whites still owned most of the land.
• Many blacks ended up working for whites by
  renting land, tools and seeds.
• At the end of the year they would repay their
  debts.
• In reality most of these sharecroppers never
  escaped debt.

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Free at last?

• These changes to the constitution(rules) meant
  black people had the same rights to freedom as
  white people
• Black males had the right to vote
• However discrimination and racism continued

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