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What were the causes and effects of the ban on the transatlantic slave trade?
Cause: International pressure and moral opposition to the slave trade. Effect: Increased reliance on domestic reproduction and the domestic slave trade within the United States.
What were the causes and effects of the cotton boom in the South?
Cause: Increased demand for cotton in textile mills. Effect: Expansion of cotton plantations, increased demand for enslaved labor, and the forced migration of enslaved people from the upper to the lower South.
What were the causes and effects of the domestic slave trade?
Cause: Demand for labor in the cotton industry and the ban on the transatlantic slave trade. Effect: Forced migration of enslaved people, family separation, and immense physical and psychological trauma.
Who was Frederick Douglass and what was his impact?
A formerly enslaved abolitionist who wrote narratives exposing the horrors of slavery, including family separation.
Who was Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and what was her impact?
An African American abolitionist and poet whose work, like 'The Slave Auction,' captured the despair and helplessness of enslaved people.
Who was William Wells Brown and what was his impact?
An abolitionist and playwright whose play, The Escape, dramatized the desperation to avoid being sold into slavery.
Who was Solomon Northup and what was his impact?
A free Black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery; his memoir, Twelve Years a Slave, provided a firsthand account of the brutality of the system.
Define 'Slave Auctions'.
Public sales where enslaved people were sold as property to the highest bidder, often involving violence and family separation.
Define 'Domestic Slave Trade'.
The trade of enslaved people within the borders of the United States, particularly from the upper to the lower South.
Define 'Second Middle Passage'.
The forced migration of over one million enslaved people within the United States, primarily due to the expansion of cotton production.
Define 'Broadside'.
A single sheet of paper printed on one side, often used for public announcements or advertisements, such as slave auctions.
Define 'Coffles'.
Groups of enslaved people chained or roped together and forced to march long distances, often from the upper to the lower South, as part of the domestic slave trade.
Define 'Abolitionist'.
A person who advocated for the end of slavery.
Define 'Commodification'.
The process of treating something as a product that can be bought and sold.
Define 'Antebellum'.
The period before the Civil War (1861-1865).
Define 'Narrative'.
A first-person account of events, often used by formerly enslaved people to describe their experiences.
Define 'White Supremacy'.
The belief that white people are superior to people of other races and should therefore dominate society.