The Peculiar Institution

US History - Bolos & Twadell

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1. 1) What pets do you own (or have you owned or want to own)? 2) Why do people own pets? 3) What was one of the most popular pets of the 18th Century, especially in Virginia? Guess. 4) Why were boys given these pets? 5) Why were girls? 3:35
2. “A More Perfect Union” Senator Barack Obama’s speech in Philadelphia on March 18, 2008.
5. “The government gives them the drugs, builds bigger prisons, passes a three-strike law and then wants us to sing ‘God Bless America’. No, no, no, God damnAmerica, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people….God damnAmerica for treating our citizens as less than human. God damnAmerica for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.” — 2003 sermon
7. “The document they produced was eventually signed but ultimately unfinished. It was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery, a question that divided the colonies and brought the convention to a stalemate until the founders chose to allow the slave trade to continue for at least twenty more years, and to leave any final resolution to future generations….
8. “The document they produced was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery
9. “The document they produced was stained by this nation’s original sin of slavery
10. Article 1. Section 2. Paragraph 3: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons …and…three fifths of all other Persons.”
11. As William Faulkner once wrote, ‘The past isn’t dead and buried. In fact, it isn’t even past.’ We do not need to recite here the history of racial injustice in this country. But we do need to remind ourselves that so many of the disparities that exist in the African- American community today can be directly traced to inequalities passed on from an earlier generation that suffered under the brutal legacy of slavery and Jim Crow.”
12. The Peculiar Institution
13. The Peculiar Institution slavery:
14. 1.African Origins? 2.Atlantic Slave Trade 3.Colonial Slavery 4.The World of the Enslaved 5.Life in the North 6.Conclusion
17. kingdoms
18. absolute monarchies
19. large landowners
20. small landowners
21. slaves
22. protected
23. property
24. hereditary
25. POWs
27. 3:08
29. 400,000
30. 4,000,000
31. 2:46
33. “Middle Passage”
36. 2:18
37. 10-15%
38. 1807 (GB), 1808 (US)
41. MISCEGENATION: mid 19th century, formed irregularly from Latin miscere‘to mix’ + genus‘race’ + English -ation.
45. entrenchment
46. GB: 80%
47. NE: 284 million lbs
49. cotton engine
50. cotton ‘gin
51. $350…$1500
52. $350…$1500
53. $350…$1500
55. “average” slave Cumberland Landing, Va. 1862 Group of “contrabands”
56. hierarchy
57. 1) house
59. 1) house 2) hotel/artisan
60. 2) hotel/artisan 1) house 3) field hand
63. Theory #1 Computer-assisted model
66. <LIFE SPANS>
67. Southern Whites
68. Northern White WC
69. Enslaved Blacks
70. Southern Whites? Northern white WC? Enslaved Blacks?
72. Southern Whites Northern white WC Enslaved Blacks
73. Southern Whites Northern white WC Enslaved Blacks
74. Computer-assisted model
75. Theory #2 Psychological model
76. Stanley Elkins Slavery: A Problem in American Institutional and Intellectual Life (1959)
80. Psychological model
83. 5/15 1860
84. segregation
85. discrimination
86. “last hired, first fired”
94. William Lloyd Garrison
95. “I do not wish to think, or speak, or write, with moderation…. I am in earnest – I will not equivocate – I will not excuse – I will not retreat a single inch – AND I WILL BE HEARD.”
97. “A covenant with death & an agreement with hell.”
99. Article 1. Section 2. Paragraph 3: “Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons …and…three fifths of all other Persons.”
102. “I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away, but with Blood.”
105. Frederick Douglass
106. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
107. “written by himself” Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
109. <10%
110. <10% (of Northerners)
111. riots
112. riots
113. riots
114. Conclusion How to end the Peculiar Institution?
116. “[A]lmost exclusively slave labor except as to the Boss men …enables me of course to compete with other manufacturers.” Joseph R. Anderson, 1847 Tredegar Iron Works 7:40