AFAM 002A Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Wage Labour, The Star-Spangled Banner, Absalom Jones
28 Jan 2017
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Chapter 5 african americans in the new nation. Post-revolutionary north, slavery was widespread but not economically essential. Northern slaveholders had wealth and influence but not overwhelming authority as in the. Transatlantic immigration brought the north plenty of white laborers who worked cheap and did not appreciate slave competition. New religion, natural rights, and market economy based on wage labor = northern slaveholders disliked perpetual black slavery. 1804 revolt ended slavery in haiti, first independent black republic. 1838 peaceful, gradual abolition of slavery in british empire. End of slavery in 1848 in french colonies. Northern emancipation was not result of force or intervention by imperial power. Free black communities emerged through western hemisphere but north stands out because it is bulk of the region"s black population. Emancipation, fast->slow: massachusetts/maine, connecticut, rhode island, new. Hampshire, and vermont versus pennsylvania, new york, and new jersey: new england slavery collapsed because african american refusal and white new.
