Outline of Slavery 1619 - 1800, Monday's Class

The following outline corresponds to the big puzzle box lid of US history 1800's with an emphasis on slavery at the time. The top of the timeline highlights the major historic events and topics that we've studied earlier: colonies, Declaration of Independence, Revolutionary War, The Constitution, and the combo unit on connections in the 1800's between: physical geography, immigration, industrialization, Manifest Destiny, Western Expansion... and now we're adding the slavery piece.

Monday, 3/16, Lesson
Introduction: slavery in ancient and pre-American history – Asia 3500 BC, Greece 400 BC, Mid-East, China, India, Native Americans, Africa-west and east: Moslem, African Empires-Mumbara, Dubian, King Solomon, Zimbabwe, interior of continent outward, African slave trade to 1619 – England, Netherlands, France.
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I. Slavery 1619 – 1800 List brief notes as you look at your timeline and listen to lesson: A) Jamestown, 1619

B) Slave Trade, 1619 – 1785, p. 169 – 173 (blue) America Will Be, text


C) Geography of Slave Trade, a “triangle” of locations, geography, resources,
Access and trade routes, economy, movement

D) 1785, Congress Makes Slavery Illegal in NW Territory (see map p. 293, blue)

E) 1793, Whitney, Cotton Gin, Drives up more Slave Trade

F) 1793, Fugitive Slave Law

G) 1800, Gabriel Prosser – Conspiracy, Revolt, Hangings