Black History

A detailed Summary of Black History

In American history periodic acts of violent resistance by black slaves during more than two centuries of chattel slavery signifying continual deep-rooted discontent with the condition of bondage and resulting in ever more stringent mechanisms for social control and repression in slaveholding areas. This historic decision was to stimulate a mass movement on the blacks and white sympathizers to try to end the segregationist practices and racial inequalities that were firmly entrenched across the nation and particularly in the south.

American abolitionists realized the failure of gradualism and persuasion, and they subsequently turned to a more militant policy demanding immediate abolition by law. The best known abolitionist was the aggressive agitator William Lloyd Garrison founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society. The Abolition Movement in western Europe and the Americans, was the movement chiefly responsible for creating the emotional climate necessary for ending the transatlantic slave trade and chattel slavery (Berlin, 90).

The Middle Passage supplied the New World with its major work force and brought enormous profits to international slave traders. At the same time, it exacted a terrible pri

ce in physical and emotional anguish on the part of the up rooted Africans, it was distinguished by the callousness to human sufferings it developed among the traders Portugal, and France(Marble, 125). The Middles Passage male slaves were kept constantly shacked to each other or to the deck to prevent mutiny of which 55 recorded between 1699 and 1845.Deaths during the Middle Passage caused by epidemics, suicide, "fixed melancholy", and mutiny, have been estimated at 13 percent. So many bodies of deed or dying Africans were jesttisoned into the ocean that sharks regularly followed the slave ships on their westward journey(Marble, 128-130).

The Underground Railroad in the United States, was a system existing in the Northern States before the Civil War by which escaped slaves from the South were secretly helped by sympathetic northerners to reach places of safety in the North or in Canada(Blockson, 130).It was named because its activities had to be carried out in secret using darkness or disguise and because railway terms were used in reference to the conduct of the system. Those who most actively assisted slaves to escape by way of the railroad were members of the free black community such as formers slave Harriet Tubman.

The Fugitive Slave Act that passed by Congress in 1973 provided the seizure and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory. The law enforced Article IV, Section 2, of the U.S. Con

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