HI330 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Slave Narrative, New York City English, Haitian Revolution
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Hi330 slavery, expansionism and escalating sectional conflict. How the nation got so angry about slavery. Aspects of the white south and aspects of slaveholders lives. Antislavery movement doesn"t pop up out of nowhere. Religious developments people could change or even perfect their world. By 1861 there were nearly 4 million slaves in the us. Some people believed that they wanted to extend freedom to everyone. This lead to a small upswing, some being willing to privately free their slaves, and some laws, which permitted private manumission. No groundswell for abolition after the civil war. Small percentage of the population that is willing to challenge the existence of the institution quakers, free blacks, slaves. Many of the motivations were very racist colonization depended on the belief that other races could never gain equality with whites. There weren"t any concrete or feasible plans to bring it about. Key to both the british and us anti-slavery movements.
