The_Age_Of_Slavery

 Slavery  By: Madison McGinnis

Slavery in the United States was a form of unfree labor which existed as a legal institution in North America for more than a century before the founding of the United States in 1776, and it continued mostly in the South until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1865.

Slavery In North Carolina
Slavery has been a part of North Carolina since the late 1600s and the early 1700s. Most of the first slaves were brought from the West Indies but also many were brought from Africa. North Carolina did not play a huge part in the early slave trade. By the 1800s Africans outnumbered whites. Everyone counted on slaves to do all their work for them for the states growth and succ ess.

Emancipation Proclamation
The Emancipation Proclamation was an order issued by Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. This occurred during the Civil War under Lincoln's war power. It freed 3.1 million slaves out of 4 million.

Dred Scott
[|Dred Scott] went to court to sue for his freedom from slavery in 1847. His case was finally brought before the the United States Supreme Court after a decade. Dred's owner, John Emerson, who moved to Illinois a free state, and brought Scott along with him. . Since Scott lived in Illinois that gave him legal rights to make a claim for freedom, he might have been u naware of his rights of freedom, he also might have liked his owner.

Harriet Tubman
Harriet was a Abolitionist, someone who wanted to abolish slavery. She escaped from her slave life and headed North on the Underground Railroad. She decided that she should go back South and save other slaves. Harriet made 19 trips back to the South and saved over 300 slaves. Harriet wouldn't let anyone turn back after starting the journey to the North, if she did their owner would have beaten them until they told where they went and what they were doing, so, Harriet carried a gun with her and killed anyone that couldn't go on (she never actually used the gun). Harriet died a hero on March 10th, 1913.

Story's:
//At this time I was quite a small boy, and was sold to Mr. Hodge, a negro trader. Here I began to enter into hardships. After traveling several hundred miles, Mr. Hodge sold me to Mr. Gooch, the cotton planter, Cashaw county, South Carolina; he purchased me at a town called Liberty Hill, about three miles from his home. As soon as he got home, he immediately put me on his cotton plantation to work, and put me under overseers, gave me allowance of meat and bread with the other slaves, which was not half enough for me to live upon, and very laborious work. Here my heart was almost broke with grief at leaving my fellow slaves. Mr. Gooch did not mind my grief, for he flogged me nearly every day, and very severely.// //– Moses Roper, Caswell County, N.C .//

// The slaves begged the privilege of again meeting at their little church in the woods, with their burying ground around it. It was built by the colored people, and they had no higher happiness than to meet there and sing hymns together, and pour out their hearts in spontaneous prayer. Their request was denied, and the church was demolished. // //-////Harriet Jacobs, Edenton, N.C.// 

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