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deep roots in history
dates back the bible, ancient greek and ancient roman history
occurred thousands of years before to the Transatlantic slave trade began
food and suplies to get that they traded africans
The Great Migration
colonies grew from 450 to 4,000
mortality rate were high
people had diseases
they were in need
triangle trade
traded goods and traded for slaves
took about 18 months
the middle passage
slave were chained together
the will get sick
they will try to fit the -
The cotton Gin impacted on the south
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first steps to stop spreding slavey
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This threatened to mess up the balance of slave and free states in Congress.
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the missouri compromise
power in congress between slave and free state
it was prohibited
sectionalism
Henry Clay
five laws that dealt with slavery
Kansas-nebraska Act
a bill that mandated -
1840 there was poor workers
there was health problems
low pay
women and children would work too
“city of spindles”
paid $2 a week
most families made their own clothes
when they are educated the would want to become like teachers -
John Brown
A folk hero in the north and a terrorist in the south
fighting for a cause
not a single slave joined brown
he sentence to death -
cult of domesticity
limited women influence to the home and family
women has to listen to her husband
women work in home
they will compare women to dogs
Letters of the Equality of the Sexes
Seneca Falls Convention
firsts womens rights
there are men at the convention -
the diseases of the potatoes Their lives was rough and the were poor