slave state

Examples of slave state in the following topics:

• Treatment of Slaves in the United States

  • The treatment of slaves in the United States varied widely depending on conditions, time, and place. 
  • Generally speaking, urban slaves in the northernmost Southern states had better working conditions and more freedom than their counterparts on Deep South plantations. 
  • After well-known rebellions, such as that by Nat Turner in 1831, some states even prohibited slaves from holding religious gatherings due to the fear that such meetings would facilitate communication and possibly lead to insurrection or escape.
  • Slave women in the United States were frequently subjected to rape and sexual abuse.
  • In the mid-nineteenth century, slaving states passed laws making education of slaves illegal.

• Slave Codes

  • Slave codes were laws that were established in each state to define the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
  • Slaves codes were state laws established to regulate the relationship between slave and owner as well as to legitimize the institution of slavery.
  • It was common for slaves to be prohibited from carrying firearms or learning to read, but there were often important variations in slave codes across states.
  • In Ohio, an emancipated slave was prohibited from returning to the state in which he or she had been enslaved.
  • Explain the purpose of slave codes and how they were implemented throughout the United States

• Slave Culture

  • In most states, slaves were forbidden to read or write.
  • While each state had its own slave code, they shared many similarities.
  • Some states denied slaves the right to carry firearms, drink liquor, or leave the plantation without their master's written consent.
  • Literate slaves taught illiterates how to read and write, despite state laws that forbid slaves from literacy.
  • Describe how slave culture often paralleled forms of resistance to slavery in the United States

• African-American Culture

  • Slave culture in the United States drew heavily on a variety of African tribal sources mixed with American Christianity to create a relatively homogeneous American slave culture that contributed to the shape of Southern plantation life.
  • 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.
  • Some states denied slaves the right to carry firearms, drink liquor, or leave the plantation without their master's written consent.

• Gabriel's Rebellion

  • This prompted an influx of both zealous slave owners and free African Americans, and the very existence of free African Americans in Richmond challenged the condition of Virginia as a slave state.
  • Information regarding the revolt was leaked prior to its execution, however, and Monroe called the state militia to action.
  • After plans for the rebellion were quelled, many slave holders greatly restricted the slaves' rights of travel.
  • Further, the Virginia Assembly in 1808 banned the hiring out of slaves, and the Emancipation Law of 1806 required freed blacks to leave the state within twelve months or face re-enslavement.
  • For many southern white slave owners, Gabriel's Rebellion proved that slaves would tend toward rebellion and resistance if not kept forcibly contained and controlled.

• Anti-Slavery Resistance Movements

  • Slavery rebellions in the United States began even before the United States became its own country.
  • 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.
  • Fears afterward led to new legislation passed by southern states prohibiting the movement, assembly, and education of slaves, and reducing the rights of free people of color.
  • 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.
  • Examine the Anti-slavery movement in the United States between the 17th and 19th Century

• The Fugitive Slave Act

  • By 1843, several hundred slaves a year were successfully escaping to the North, making slavery untenable in the border states.
  • The Fugitive Slave Act of 1793 required the return of runaway slaves by requiring authorities in free states to return fugitive slaves to their masters.
  • However, many Northern states found ways to circumvent the Fugitive Slave Act.
  • Others forbade the use of local jails or the assistance of state officials in the arrest or return of alleged fugitive slaves.
  • The Missouri Supreme Court held that voluntary transportation of slaves into free states, with the intent of their residing there permanently or definitely, automatically made them free, whereas the Fugitive Slave Act dealt with slaves who went into free states without their master's consent.

• Slave Labor

  • Slave labor in the United States - especially on large plantations - consisted of hard manual labor often under brutal conditions.
  • Chattel slavery in the United States, or the outright ownership of a human being and of his/her descendants, was a form of forced labor which existed as a legal institution from the early colonial period .
  • Each systems was characterized by the amount of work time required by the slave and also the amount of freedom given to the slave.
  • For example, women laborers were the predominant work force for rice cultivation within the task system of the Southeastern United States.
  • Slaves Waiting for Sale: Richmond, Virginia.

• Forming a Slave Community

  • Published in 1972, it is one of the first historical studies of slavery in the United States to be presented from the perspective of the enslaved.
  • The importance of The Slave Community as one of the first studies of slavery from the perspective of the slave was recognized by historians.
  • Slaveowners and state governments tried to prevent slaves from making or playing musical instruments because of the use of drums to signal the Stono Rebellion in 1739.
  • Slave marriages were illegal in southern states, and slave couples were frequently separated by slaveowners through sale.
  • Identify historian John Blassingame's argument about the formation of slave culture in the United States

• Slave Families

  • 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