Transcript Enslavement and Reform during the Antebellum Period: 1815-1840

Enslavement during the Antebellum
Period: 1815-1840
Defining the “Peculiar Institution”
The Old South: Myth and Reality
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Paternalism
The Second Middle Passage
Slavery and the Nation
Southern Economy
• Southern Farmers
• The Planter Class
• The Code of Honor
Crafting the Pro-Slavery Argument
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John C. Calhoun and the Declaration of Independence
The World the Slaves Made…
Slave Culture:
• Within the institution of white supremacy
• Unjustness of bondage and desire for freedom
Slave Family
Gender Roles Along Slaves
Slave Religion
The Gospel of Freedom
Resistance to Enslavement during
the Antebellum Period
Forms of Resistance
Fugitive Slaves
Slave Revolts
• 1831 Nat Turner and the Old South
• The Amistad 1839
The “Impulse of Reform” during the
Antebellum Period: 1815-1840
The Impulse of Reform
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To improve society/ change
Reform Communities
•Utopian
•Oneida
•The Owenites
Religion and Reform
Temperance Movement
The Invention of the Asylum
Women’s Rights/ Origins of Feminism
The Crusade Against the Peculiar
Institution
Colonization
•Support
•Non-support
The Black Radical Tradition (Cedric J. Robinson, Robin D.G. Kelly)
•An Appeal…David Walker (introduced “Prince” in the North)
The Emergence of Garrison
Abolitionism and Race
Black and White Abolitionism
Black Abolitionists
• James Forten
• Frederick Douglass
Abolitionism and Race
• Product of time and place
• Who was in control?
Slavery and American Freedom
The Abolitionist Schism