AMH-4172 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Reconstruction Acts, Nathan Bedford Forrest, John Wilkes Booth
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Middle passage across the atlantic trading slaves from africa. 1781 captain of the slave ship zong worried that if everyone dies, then insurance wont cover, but will cover slaves going overboard. The captain throws over 100 slaves overboard and goes to court for insurance fraud, not murder. Colonial north america last in slave trade market. Bond between people who survived on slave ships called shipmate. Virginia, condition of the mother law: children will inherit the freedom or slavery of the. As a (cid:498)good business decision(cid:499), the slave owner would rape slave women to make more babies born into slavery. mother. Manumission is the act of a slave owner freeing his or her slaves. By the time of civil war, every southern state has a law against manumission. Haiti first people to defeat slavery and napoleon (haitian revolution) At the national convention, settle on 3/5 compromise, which states that slaves are 3/5 of a person. (representation.
