Resisting Slavery

ResistanceWork slowPlaying “Sick”Break tools“Theft”Poisoning FoodRun awayRebellion

Gabriel Prosser

Running AwayOver 1,000Mainly in upper

southRan to the

North or Canada

Slaves created songs with secret

messagesExamples (Don’t copy)Swing Low Sweet ChariotLet My People GoWade in the Water

Negro Spirituals

A series of safe houses slaves used to get to freedom

The Underground Railroad

Family on Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

Leader of Underground Railroad

Homes, barns, woods, trails north

19 missions300 people

Violently overthrowing slave masters

Usually by killing them and their families

Very rare

Slave Rebellions

RebellionsNat Turner, 1831

Led a slave rebeliion in Virginia Killed 70

· Turner was caught and hanged. His revolt, however, increased Southerner’s fears of slave revolts.

Slave Rebellions (Don't Copy)Gabriel Prosser

1800LiterateRichmond, VA1000 slaves“Death or liberty”

Denmark Vescey, 1822Telemanque, born in

Africa or W. IndiesFree, literate,

preacherCharlestonMissouri Compromise100 men

Resisting Slavery· Many slaves tried to escape to the North. Few were successful.· In 1831, an African-American preacher named Nat Turner led a revolt in Virginia, killing 57 whites.

Rewards ConsequencesWhites could be Jailed or fined

Blacks could be killed

The Fugitive Slave Laws Of 1850Under this law, it gave

slave owners the right to organize a posse to recapture runaway slaves.

No African American was considered safe.

Courts and police had to help all over the United States.

Private citizens had to help, too to recapture the slaves.

He escaped from slaveryHe held speeches asking for the end of slavery

Fredrick Douglass

A white person who wanted to abolish (end) slavery

Abolitionist

Dred Scott

Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom