Slavery

Slavery

By: Ashley, Shannon, Leslie, and Bobby

media type="custom" key="8599622" Triangular Trade: During the 1700s the Triangular Trade was a trade of 3 passages. The first passage was a trade of manufacturing goods between Europe and Africa: guns, cloth, metal goods, spirit, tobacco, beads, and cowrie shells. These were exchanged for African slaves. The second passage (middle passage) was to take the slaves to America. Taking them as human cargo. The final passage of the Triangular Trade involved the goods from the plantations that the slaves did: cotton, sugar, tobacco, molasses and rum. But in 1870 the British Parliament passed a bill prohibiting all slave trades. In the following year the United States did the same. But that didn’t mean the United States couldn’t sell slaves in the states, for we had auctions. Auctions are public sales in which goods and or property are sold by the highest bidder.


 * Cotton Gin: **

Because it was a use for slavery so they would have less work and also spread the seeds from thecotton and make fabric out of it faster than having to do it by hand.
 * Why was the Cotton gin invented for ? **

Eli Whitney was the inventor of the cotton gin and a pioneer in the mass production of cotton. Whitney was born in Westboro, Massachusetts on December 8, 1765 and died on January 8, 1825.
 * Who was Eli Whitney? **

50,000
 * How much was the Cotton gin was worth in South Carolina? **

North Carolina
 * Where was the Cotton Gin invented? **

It was a machine that separated the seeds, seed hulls, and other small objects from the fibers of cotton.
 * What was the Cotton Gin used for? **

Before the invention of the cotton gin, seeds had to be removed from cotton fibers by hand; this labor-intensive and time-consuming process made growing and harvesting cotton uneconomical.

Daily Life of a Slave

= Slaves generally worked anywhere from 8-16 hours a day. They were much harshly treated in the Deep South. In the Deep South the farms were more in swamp lands and there was a lot of mosquitoes; the slaves were much more tolerant to malaria and the whites weren't so the owners more of gave the slaves a set task and they did so as a group. In northern areas, the owners could be out in the fields making sure the slaves worked very hard the entire time and beat them in many cases. They were not allowed to be educated. Blacks at the time had no rights at all. =
 * The Underground Railroad **

The Underground Railroad was an network of secret routes and safe houses used by slaves in the 19 century in the United States to escape from their masters with the help of people that are willing to help them. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Other various routes led to different country’s or overseas. Slaves that traveled on the under ground railroad were African Americans. Not all slaves that chose to run away on the under ground rail road did not get to freedom. The smart slaves to chose to run away traveled at night, and slept in the day. Resources http://liberty-11th-english.liberty-charter.groupfusion.net/modules/groups/group_pages.phtml?gid=72813&nid=177038&sessionid=c34013a3e28c5ebdcc7136835e5c8d0c&sessionid=c34013a3e28c5ebdcc7136835e5c8d0c http://yardleybrianbeau.blogspot.com/2011/02/underground-railroad-map.html http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-antebellum/4739 http://wapedia.mobi/en/Jews_and_the_slave_trade http://www.sdcoe.net/colonial/lessons/slavequarters1.jpg