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Cotton Gin
The slaves would have to remove all the seeds from the cotton gin "gin short for engine" & would have to work for a long period of time in the heat. Invented by Eli Whitney -
Trans-Altantic Slave Trade
The transatlantic slave trade is often known as the first system of globalization. According to French historian Jean-Michel Deveau the slave trade and consequently slavery, which lasted from the 16th to the 19th century, constitute one of "the greatest tragedies in the history of humanity in terms of scale and duration -
Lowell Mills
Women & sometimes children would have to work in the Lowell Mills because opportunities to work would be rare. Name from Francis Lowell. -
Legislative Actions; The Compromise of 1850
Fugitive slave act was amended
Slave trade in washington Dc was abolished
California entered the Union as a free Utah
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The First Great Migration
As the wikipedia states, " The Great Migration was the movement of 6 million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West that occurred between 1910 and 1970. Some historians differentiate between the first Great Migration numbering about 1.6 million migrants who left mostly rural areas to migrate to northern industrial cities; and, after a lull during the Great Depression, a Second Great Migration in which 5 million or more people moved. -
The Middle Passage
The Middle Passage was the stage of the triangular trade in which millions of people from Africa[ were shipped to the New World as part of the Atlantic slave trade. Ships departed Europe for African markets with manufactured goods, which were traded for purchased or kidnapped Africans, who were transported across the Atlantic as slaves. They would be shoved in.
