AF AMER M5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fugitive Slaves In The United States, Missouri Compromise, Thirteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution
15 May 2018
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Brain Lotion part 1- 96 Degrees in the Shade
Exercise one: few words, phrases, or sentences
1. Where are WE today? In your view, what are the current state of affairs for Black
Americans?
We are better today than we were in the past in terms of slavery. The current state is not
the best state. Amit: “worse than slavery.” Conditional freedom.
2. How did WE come to place? Who is responsible?
White people fucked us up.
Exercise two: What happens to the following words once you put “black” in front? What comes
to mind?
1. Republican
2. Vote
3. President
You count… but as 3/5ths
1. Compromise reached between the North and South in the 1787 Constitutional
Convention (Article 1, Section 2, Paragraph 3 of Constitution)
2. Increased the South’s Congressional and Electoral share by ⅓
3. Nullified by the 13th amendment (1865)
4. Slave trade formally prohibited in US in 1808
Missouri Compromise
1. Compromise reached between pro-slavery and anti-slavery in 1820
2. Maine admitted as a (free) state and Missouri is admitted as a (slave) state
3. Repealed by Kansas-Nebraska Act (1954), which admitted the territories to the union but
led to the disagreement between North and South.
Dred Scott v. Stanford
1. US Supreme Court decision (1857)
2. Enslaved, Dred Scott, sought to sue for his freedom
3. 7-2 decision
4. Held that Black Americans, enslaved or free, could not be citizens and thus have no
standing in federal court.
Black Reconstruction- W.E.B. Du Bois
● Transported from “Africa to the various America’s” from 15th to 19th centuries (pg 4)
● Arrived to the continent through ”west indian tutelage” and “so mingled.. Mixed descent”
(pg 4)
● Whether enslaved or free, the black worker was at the bottom of the later, because they
would not be paid to work.
The Black Worker
1. Slavery maintained by the slave codes and fugitive slave laws, the “safety valve of
slavery” (pg 13)
a. Slaves who escaped were brought back by “Fugitive slave law capture”
2. Larger and available poor white population
3. Fiery competition over labor
-“The emancipation of man… yellow, brown, and black” (pg 16)
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Document Summary
Brain lotion part 1- 96 degrees in the shade. In your view, what are the current state of affairs for black. We are better today than we were in the past in terms of slavery. The current state is not the best state. What comes to mind: republican, vote, president. You count but as 3/5ths: compromise reached between the north and south in the 1787 constitutional. Convention (article 1, section 2, paragraph 3 of constitution: increased the south"s congressional and electoral share by , nullified by the 13th amendment (1865, slave trade formally prohibited in us in 1808. Transported from africa to the various america"s from 15th to 19th centuries (pg 4) Arrived to the continent through west indian tutelage and so mingled mixed descent (pg 4) Whether enslaved or free, the black worker was at the bottom of the later, because they would not be paid to work. The emancipation of man yellow, brown, and black (pg 16)
