Slavery

• Thomas Jefferson

  Contradiction: author of declaration of independence & slave owner

  Represents Segregation
• Name dropping:

  American South- Cotton elite, Trilangular Trade, American Revolution

  Middle Passage

  Second middle passage

  Zong Trial/scandal

  Chattel slaver

  Underground Railroad - Harriet Tubeman , Uncle Toms Cabin, Frederick Douglass Civil War - Kansas Nebreska Act , Johnson Brown, Fugerative Act, 13th Amendment, Juneteenth
• Present slavery - name dropping

  • Confrontation of the past - no repetition of events
  • Reperations - wealth through slavery, artifacts..
  • Ignorance of the topic
  • Exeptionalism, Proud of history
• Middle passage : 


  Largest forced migration in history

  1783 zlong ship Human Cargo
• Second middle passage: 


  Slavery banned after American Revolution

  -> slaves status is the same

  -> slave auctions
• The Slave Trade Compromise allowed the importation of slaves from various countries for over two decades, and it was only in 1808, 20 years after this compromise was instituted, that slavery importation was banned.