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Escaping Slavery. Nicholette Worgs Christina Santiago Thea De Guzman. Preview. What did Harriet Tubman contributed to slavery?. Origin of Slavery. Where did it begin? It existed in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and China - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Nicholette WorgsChristina SantiagoThea De Guzman
Escaping Slavery
What did Harriet Tubman contributed to slavery?
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Where did it begin? It existed in ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and ChinaSlaves were used for hard work, household servantry, military
respite and even ritual human sacrifices.
British Colonization in AmericaBrought 20 enslaved Africans into America by a Dutch shipBrought in for the new colonization known as the Virginia
Colony in Jamestown
Slavery in AmericaAmerica needed slavery to work on:
Tobacco, sugar, rice, cotton plantations…etcAbout 500,000 enslaved Africans were transferred to America
Origin of Slavery
Missouri Compromise 1850James Tallamage proposed
the prohibition of slaves for MissouriSlaves was prohibited North
of latitude 36°30‘Compromise: reflected the
growing opposition between slave and free states
North- against slaverySouth- for slavery due to the
need of enslavement for their plantations
Division of the North and South
Slaves severely punishedRunaways were sold to the SouthHarder for slaves because of distance from the
NorthOther times, slaves were beaten and do
extremely hard workNot usually killed because they were valuable
property.People who help were fined or imprisoned
What happen to slaves who escape and were captured again?
Illustrated by William W. Brown, this is a picture of a slave who is hiding in a tree
so that he won't be captured and down below is
the owner, horse and bloodhound chasing after
him.
Slavery was cruelUnhappy life and harsh treatment
Nothing to eatNo warm clothesA decent place to liveBeatened and tortured
Find family membersReconnect with family sold away from themNot likely that slaves find their familiesGave up and return to their plantation owners
Wanted freedom and live their own lifeMake their own moneyLive where they choseLive with their family
Why Slaves Escape
Slaves were punished for:Resisting slaveryUsing their own languageNot working hard enoughStealingMurdering WhitesAttempting to runaway
How were they punished? Punishment is based on how
big the crime was…They were often put into
shackles or contraptions or chained to the grounds
Owners used slave whip and chains, force to walk in treadmills and even hanged..
Continue… Punishment
This is Thomas Johnson holding the slave whip and chains used to torture and punish slaves.
"there arose in some an irrepressible desire
for freedom which no danger or power could
restrain, no hardship deterred, and no
bloodhound could alarm. This desire haunted
them night and day; they talked about it to
each other in confidence; they knew that the
system which bound them was as unjust as it
was cruel, and that they ought to strive, as a
duty to themselves and their children, to
escape from it". From Walter Hawkins point of view, he is stating that slaves wanted to runaway and how confident they were therefore they could not stop talking about it.
Escaping
Extraordinary disguises
• Henry “Box” Brown mailed himself to freedom, traveling to Philadelphia in a wooden cratedisguised as cargo.• He was in the box for 26 hours• Other runaways started to follow this idea.
• William and Ellen Craft, from Macon, Georgia, disguised themselves as slave and a master • Ellen Craft was able to pass for white. • She dressed as an elderly man with an ailment which covered her feminine features• William Craft played a servant• They successfully escape to Boston
Harriet Tubman made 19 trips to the South to help 300+ slaves escape to the North.
80-90% of runaways were male and usually in their mid-twenties.
Thomas Garrett, a famous white man who conducted the Underground Railroad, help 2,700 slaves escape.
William Still, who is referred as the “Father of the Underground Railroad” recorded detailed information about 649 escaped slaves in his journal which is now a book called “The Underground Rail Road: A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c”
Did You Know?
Who was she?Harriet Tubman was born a slave in Maryland
in the year of 1822 Was the 11th child of Harriet Green and Benjamin
RossShe was denied to receive education because slave
owners did not want their slaves to be literate. She risked her own life to fight for freedom
and justice. She led about 19 escape missions to save slaves.She was known as “Moses”She took the runaways through the Underground
Railroad which was a network that took runaways from South to the free states up North. There was about 50,000 slaves that escaped through
the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
These are pictures taken from a farm house in Chester County by the owner who believes that it may have been markings that relates to the Underground Railroad activities.
Discovery
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