Issues of Slavery essays

Issues of Slavery essays One Way (Middle) Passage - was a journey of 500 miles across the Atlantic to America. As many as 200 black men, women, and children were packed below decks, squeezed onto platforms built in tiers spaced so close that sitting upright was impossible. Maroons - were a group of runaway slaves that formed their own communities. Nat Turner - he was convinced that God had selected him to punish white people through terror and devastation. Then one night in 1831 Turner and six confederates murdered Turners master and family. Recruiting some 70 slaves. They killed 57 white men, women, and children. The revolt lasted only 48 hrs. Kansas-Nebraska Act/Bleeding Kansas - was opened or signed in 1854. The remaining portion of Louisiana Purchase to slavery under the doctrine of popular sovereignty, conflict between the two selections focused on control of Kansas, directly west of the slave state of Missouri. Dred Scott Decision (1857) - it was a clear implication that the decision was that popular sovereignty was also unconstitutional. (Separate but Equal.) David Walkers Appeal - in his appeal to the colored citizens of the world (1829) urged slaves to use violence to end bondage. Gabriel Prosser - in 1800 he recruited perhaps a couple hundred slaves in a plan to march on Richmond and capture the govenor. But some slaves betrayed the plot and had Prosser and other leaders executed. John C. Calhoun/Nullification Crisis/States Rights - he argued that the Union was a compact between sovereign states. John Brown - In 1857 John Brown and 21 followers including 5 free Blacks had a plant to attack the slavery in the south. On the night of Oct. 16, 1859, his band seized the unguarded federal army at Harpers Ferry in Virging. Stono Rebellion (1739)- was the largest slave revolt of the colonial period. Eli Whitney - in 1793 he invented the cotton gin, a mechanical device that removed sticky seeds from the ...