GE CLST 20A Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Missouri Compromise, Indian Removal Act, American Colonization Society
18 Oct 2016
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Lecture 7 | 10/13/16 | Kelley
Political Allies and Rebellion: John Brown and the Road to Civil War
- Slave is a condition produced and contained by surveillance and coercion, not a
culture/identity
o Dispossessed
o Their status and condition was unwanted; they constantly resisted
- Struggle between slave power and abolition
- Prerequisites for Plantation Economy
o Slaves (Labor)
o Land
o Markets
o State
1. Slavery inseparable from Indian dispossession; this was the source of land
2. Protection of slavery not merely a sectional issue (N vs S); required federal
govt for maintenance and survival
3. Survival of US slave regime required limiting citizenship rights to whites
(majority of whites did not own slaves)
most of signers of declaration of independence held slaves, right to
liberty included owning slaves, when the British began emancipating
slaves who were fighting for the British, Jefferson had to delete the
passage; deleting the passage made it from anti-slavery to anti-anti-
slavery
Constitution: African Americans: property or people held in service; if
they are property, protected by 5th amendment, if were people, can
they be property?
o African Americans made it clear, they were neither; they were
victims of a crime, a crime of the entire state.
o Prince Hall’s petition- refusal to accept either of these
categories; he said they were victims, they were stolen in
violation of the laws of nature and government and humanity
- 3/5ths Compromise gave more representation to South; more political power
- Ban on export taxes, limit the amount of tax. Slavery cannot be taxed out of
existence
- Slave holding states have advantage in electoral college
- States that did not hold slaves/abolished slavery had to recognize legality of
slaves in other states (Full Faith and Credit)
o Implication, slaves were property, so fugitives/runaways were criminals
because they “stole themselves”, always going to be fugitives. Guaranteed
rights of slave owners to track down runaways and recapture
o Federal crime to run away, and resources were given to track runaways
down
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Document Summary
Political allies and rebellion: john brown and the road to civil war. Slave is a condition produced and contained by surveillance and coercion, not a culture/identity: dispossessed, their status and condition was unwanted; they constantly resisted. 3/5ths compromise gave more representation to south; more political power. Ban on export taxes, limit the amount of tax. Slave holding states have advantage in electoral college. States that did not hold slaves/abolished slavery had to recognize legality of slaves in other states (full faith and credit: implication, slaves were property, so fugitives/runaways were criminals because they stole themselves , always going to be fugitives. Guaranteed rights of slave owners to track down runaways and recapture: federal crime to run away, and resources were given to track runaways down. Southern states passed laws limiting movement of free blacks and restrict owner"s right of manumission (freeing slaves) Black people barred from meeting in groups without presence of white person.
