Examples of slave patrols in the following topics:
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- The children of white
fathers and slave mothers were mixed-race slaves whose appearance was generally
classified as "mulatto," a term that initially meant a person with white and
black parents, but grew to encompass any apparently mixed-race person.
- In many households, for instance, the way in which slaves were treated
depended on the slave's skin color.
- Darker-skinned slaves worked in the fields
while lighter-skinned slaves worked in the house and had comparatively better
clothing, food, and housing.
- A woodcut from the abolitionist Anti-Slavery Almanac (1839) depicts a slave patrol capturing a fugitive slave.
- Explain how skin color and the relationship between slave and master shaped the slave community
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- Ownership of large numbers of slaves made the work of planters completely managerial.
- Among slaveholders, the concentration of slave ownership was unevenly distributed.
- For example, the "slave patrols" were among the institutions bringing together southern whites of all classes in support of the prevailing economic and racial order.
- Serving as slave "patrollers" and "overseers" offered white southerners positions of power and honor.
- Slave "patrollers" and "overseers" also won prestige in their communities.
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- In many respects, American slave culture was a culture of survival and defiance against the American slave system.
- In the absence of a successful slave revolution, as in Haiti (although there were some abortive attempts by black slaves to violently claim their freedom), American slaves practiced other forms of resistance.
- Slaves who ran away were often fed and sheltered by slaves on neighboring plantations, which enabled them to evade their masters.
- Literate slaves taught illiterates how to read and write, despite state laws that forbid slaves from literacy.
- Slaves commonly suffered horrid abuses from their masters, as depicted by the scars on the back of this former slave named Peter.
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- Slave codes were laws that were established in each state to define the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
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practice, these codes placed harsh restrictions on slaves' already limited freedoms
and gave slave owners absolute power over their slaves.
- Occasionally slave codes provided slaves with legal
protection in the event of a legal dispute, but only at the discretion of the
slave’s owner.
- Owners refusing to abide by the slave code were fined and forfeited
ownership of their slaves.
- Slaves were kept tightly in control through the establishment of slave codes, or laws dictating their status and rights.
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- The sexual abuse of slaves was a common occurrence in the antebellum South.
- Some slave-owner
fathers freed their children, but many did not.
- "Slave
breeding" refers to those practices of slave ownership that aimed to influence
the reproduction of slaves in order to increase the profit and wealth of
slaveholders.
- Slave breeding
involved coerced sexual relations between male and female slaves, as well as
sexual relations between a master and his female slaves, with the intention of
producing slave children.
- Concubine slaves were the only class of female slaves who
sold for higher prices than skilled male slaves.
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- For instance, there were slaves who
employed white workers, slave doctors who treated upper-class white patients,
and slaves who rented out their labor.
- In
1850, a publication provided guidance to slave owners on how to produce the
"ideal slave":
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the prohibition placed on the trans-Atlantic slave trade in the early nineteenth century, some slave owners attempted to improve the living conditions of their existing
slaves in order to deter them from running away.
- In the mid-nineteenth century,
slaving states passed laws making education of slaves illegal.
- In
Missouri, some slaveholders educated their slaves or permitted the slaves to
educate themselves.
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- The order outlined the Civil Air Patrol's organization and named its first national commander as Major General John F.
- Originally, the Coastal Patrol was to be unarmed and strictly reconnaissance.
- In May 1942, a CAP crew were flying a coastal patrol mission off Cape Canaveral when they spotted a German U-boat.
- Civil Air Patrol poster produced for the Office of Civilian Defense as part of a campaign to build interest in joining CAP during World War II.
- Examine the role of the Civil Air Patrol and the Civil Defense Corps in monitoring home-front security during World War II.
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- Slave codes and slaveholder practices often denied slaves autonomy over their familial relationships.
- Slave
marriages were illegal in Southern states, and slave couples were frequently
separated by slave owners through sale.
- In The
Slave Community (1979),
historian John W.
- Blassingame grants that slave owners did have control over slave
marriages.
- Blassingame in his book The Slave Community
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- In most states, slaves were forbidden to read or write.
- To regulate the relationship between slave and owner, including legal support for keeping slaves as property, state legislatures adopted various slave codes to reinforce white legal sanctions over the enslaved black population.
- While each state had its own slave code, they shared many similarities.
- Because slaves were proscribed from reading or writing, American slaves adopted a strong oral tradition--passing down songs, prayers, laments, and stories through music and storytelling.
- Slaves on a South Carolina plantation (The Old Plantation, c. 1790)
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- Turner's 1831 rebellion was considered by some to be the largest slave revolt in the history of the southern United States, involving up to 75 slaves.
- Turner and the other slaves were eventually stopped as their ammunition ran out, resulting in the hanging of about 18 slaves, including Nat Turner himself.
- This raid was a joint attack by former slaves, freed blacks, and white men who had corresponded with slaves on plantations in order to form a general uprising among slaves.
- The historian Steven Hahn proposes that the self-organized involvement of slaves in the Union Army during the American Civil War composed a slave rebellion that dwarfed all others.
- Nat Turner was captured on October 30, 1831 after attempting to lead a slave revolt in Virginia.