GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: American Colonization Society, Manumission, Free Negro

• School: UCLA
• Department: General Education Clusters
• Course: GE CLST 20A
• Professor: De Guzman

Document Summary

Slavery is a condition produced and contained by surveillance and coercion. Their condition as dispossessed is not about their identity, but their condition. Political allies and rebellion: john brown and the road to civil war. Most of the signers of the declaration of independence held slaves. When the british began emancipating slaves for fighting for britain, jefferson had to delete the passage transformed the declaration from anti-slavery to anti- anti-slavery. Draft of the constitution: whether or not africans who were enslaved property or persons held in service (as called in the. Neither: they were victims of a crime, the criminal is the state. Prince hall"s petition is the refusal to either of those categories. The ban on export taxes ensures that slavery can"t be taxed out of existence. Gives state holding states a slight advantage for picking the president. Full faith and credit clause: states that did not hold slaves had to recognize the legality of slavery in the states.