3 paragraph American History Journal Entry
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WK2Ch5Slaverevolt.pptxAfrican American Slaves
An uprising of mind and body
Olaudah Equiano (1749-1797)
David Walker 1785-1830
“See your Declaration Americans!!! Do you understand your own language? Hear your languages, proclaimed to the world, July 4th, 1776 -- "We hold these truths to be self evident -- that ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL!! that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness! !" Compare your own language above, extracted from your Declaration of Independence, with your cruelties and murders inflicted by your cruel and unmerciful fathers and yourselves on our fathers and on us -- men who have never given your fathers or you the least provocation!”
“Masters want us for their slaves and think nothing to murdering us in order to subject us to that wretched condition- therefore, if there is an attempt made by us, kill or be killed!”
“America is more our country than it is the whites -we have enriched it with our blood and tears. We have earned this our property”
The slave population outnumbered the French
Retained much of their culture
100,000 slaves Revolted
Boukman, a religious leader led the the revolt
Haitian Slave Revolt 1791
Haitian Slave Revolt 1791
Haiti was declared a republic
2nd independent state of the Western hemisphere
Self-defined as “Black” and “Haitians”
1st “Black” Nation globally.
The American Slave
4 Million Blacks were slaves in the U.S.
35% of the total U.S population
Slave owners were afraid of a revolt
Slaves were stronger and capable of attack
Psychological force was used to subdue the slave
Used propaganda to convince the world that slaves were happy
The Happy Slave
The Symbolic Revolt
Form of Mental revolt
Idleness and laziness was a form of protest
Breaking tools and crippling animals was a method of minimizing profit for the master.
Not working when the master wasn’t looking
The slave pretending to be ignorant and faithful to his/her got better treatment.
The Revolt of American Slaves
Mistress: “You know that we reared you as our own children, that you was never abused, and that shortly before you ran away, when you master asked you if you would like to be sold, you said you would not leave him to go with any body…”
Free-slave: “Woman did you raise your own children for the market? Did you raise them for the whipping-post? The Ex-slave boldly proclaimed his love for liberty: “Wretched woman! Be it known to you that I value my freedom… more, indeed, than my own life: more than all the lives of all the slaveholders and tyrants under heaven.”
