HIST 2055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Harriet Beecher Stowe, American Colonization Society, History Of The Southern United States
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American antislavery society, 1833 (cause celebre of new generation: Sarah and angelina grinke of south carolina: inherited father"s plantation, freed their slaves- leave south caroline and relocated to. Planter society was most happy when it perceived slaves as crude but tame, childlike and uncomplaining: crime to teach slaves to read and ride, haitian revolution. Fugitive slave act: the 1850 law made it illegal to aid fugitive slaves escaping north. The law required northerners t assit authorities in returning runaways. Trial by jury was denied: now northerners feel complicit in the perpetuation of slavery. Relatively few in the north embraced a modern view of diversity, but the poisonous compromise hardened their view of southerners as an immoral breed, whom they derisively called the slave power : rise of underground railroads. Dred scott decision: in 1875 the supreme court ruled that a slave whose master moved with him into a free state, and then returned him to a slave state, white citizenship.
