Slavery and it's setting in North America
- Slavery was mostly practiced in the south than the north
-Slavery was essential to the south because its economy was based on agriculture
-Institution of slavery was practice because it was free labor maximizing profits
-Once you were a slave your whole family becomes a slave.
-If you were black you had no option but to be a slave unless you were able to buy your freedom which was impossible because they worked for free.
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Slave Trade
- Also known as the transatlantic slave trade
-This was the route that slave ships took to export slaves to other

- All of the routes go through the Atlantic Ocean (Transatlantic)
-African Tribes, and Kings played a big role in the transatlantic slave trade. They would sell their captive or criminals for goods and weapons.

Plantation Life

-Plantation life was harsh and cruel
-Slaves were forced to work from sun rise till sundown
-Slaves did not receive good nourishment which lead to many dieing of starvation
-Slaves were constantly punished for any reason to inflict fear in them and their peers
-Slave masters tried to separate tribes to prevent them from communicating and planing out escapes.
-The more diversity between them the less chances of them going against the slave master.
-Many female slaves were raped, and forced to conceive the slave master's child
-Harriet Beecher Stowe's book Uncle Toms Cabin portrays a slaves life in a plantation how its like.

Abolition Movement

-Movement to end slavery
-Fredrick Douglas, Harriet Tubman, John Brown pro-abolitionist
-Many slaves attempted to group up and take out whites most fail but a few were successful in killing several white people
-Many whites supported the abolition movement and provided refuge for runaway slaves
-Most of the abolitionist lived in the north because they were able to preach their ideas without having to worry about being killed by racist.
-Because of the abolitionist many slaves were freed


Fugitive Slave Act/ Law

- This Act was passed by congress in September of 1850
- If a runaway slave was found in the North it was the responsibility of the North to report and send them back to their masters.
- Many times rewards would given to white northern who report runaway slaves
-Many non-slaves that were living in the north were reported for being slaves since they could get a nice reward for it

Everyone must conduct research on Harriet Jacobs

- Born February 11, 1813
-Died March 7, 1897
-Born in Edenton, North Carolina
-Author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
-The book is based on her life and her experiences as a slave
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl was first published on the newpaper before becoming a book.