HIST 2061 Chapter : African America Cont
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Northwest ordinance 1787: articles of confederation & jefferson"s plan, articles of confederation initial document to govern the us, gave congress the power to govern between. Especially when you have national controversies like slave revolts. Manumission: cutting losses & making a profit, lets see how much money i can make off their purchase price before i lose them, self purchase agreements. Slave may have some way of making income. North: by 1840 about 99% free in the north. The constitution (1789: taxes, commerce, military, southern concessions atlantic slave trade, slave revolts, fugitive, fugitive slave act of 1793 southern power & kidnapping, slaves who escape, owners are now allowed to go into. Slave laws. the north and retrieve their slaves: 3/5 compromise. Louisiana purchase (1803: new slavery/ plantation v. urban, slave population in la are largely urban, blacks out number whites until the la purchase, planter power, cotton major cash crop, slave population 5600 (1770)-149,654 (1820)
