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RESISTANCE:

OPPOSITION TO SLAVERY

Trans-Atlantic Slave trade routes

Resistance

  • Any and all personal and collective acts designed to:
  • Deny support to, challenge or overturn the established order
  • Deny, diminish or eliminate its hold
  • Force changes in its structure and functioning
  • Escape its control and jurisdiction

Forms of resistance to slavery

  • Internal Opposition
  • Cultural
  • Day-to-day acts of defiance
  • Abolitionism
  • Emigrationism
  • Armed struggle

A divided house—American constitutional experiment

  • Declaration of Independence, 1776
  • A revolt against slavery (British v. Americans)
  • Revolutionary ideals
  • Inalienable rights
  • Life
  • Liberty
  • Pursuit of happiness

A divided house…

  • Constitutional conferences
  • 3/5th law
  • 1793 Fugitive Slave Act
  • 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

Resistance: Antislavery constitutionalism

  • Abolition of slave trade, 1808
  • Expansion to the West
  • 1850 Fugitive Slave Act

Resistance: Abolition Movements

  • Christian revivalism
  • Liberal whites
  • Free blacks in the north
  • Alliance of all

Resistance on the Plantations

  • Cultural resistance
  • Sabotage – slow down, destruction of crops, tools, etc
  • Gynecological resistance
  • Armed struggle – Nat Turner
  • Emigration
  • Runaway
  • Underground Railroad

1865 Emancipation - 1900

  • The civil war, 1861-1865
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863
  • The Emancipation Proclamation, 1865
  • The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, March 1865
  • Thirteenth Amendment, 1865
  • Civil Right Act, 1866
  • Fourteenth Amendment, 1866
  • Collapse of Reconstruction