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Summary of Slavery during the Antebellum Period

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Summary of Slavery during the Antebellum Period

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Slavery during the antebellum period was so much deeper and worse than what is taught to most in high school. There was an entire time period and culture that was created by white people to whites and their African American slaves. There are so many ‘little’ and ‘big’ things that were factors of slavery that most are unaware of. It was deeply rooted into the minds of so many white folks, they continually justified what they were doing and forced everyone to go along with it.

One of the ideas that I chose to highlight was the reasoning for slavery, the argument that was for slavery. It’s one we often don’t think about. The people back then altered the Bible into a translation that proved slavery was an idea that God wanted them to put into practice. It was also a thing that made itself into the Constitution which really shows how blinded people were back then on how to treat human beings in an appropriate and less dehumanizing way.

They also had many wanted posters, these posters said a lot about slavery back in the antebellum period. Theses posters were for slaves that ran off, but they all described the same slave and had the same wanted picture, an ape like man. This shows how much the white people didn’t care about African Americans. They didn’t care about getting their specific slave back, but any slave would do as long as someone brought them to them. The amount of missing slave posters also says a lot, the living conditions and work conditions were not humane and consisted of pure abuse, no man or woman should have to live in these conditions.

I also highlighted the Mammy caricature. This is an image that the white man made up to make fun of the African Americans and also make them feel better about themselves. They made Mammy ‘bigger’ and ugly so that it would mean all sexualization of Mammy was impossible. This was sad because many slaves were sexually abused by their owners and their stories were just invalidated by a caricature that was to represent them. The white man created many other caricatures each one just as bad and sick minded that invalidated so many stories and cries for help and instead turned it all into a mocking session. They placed them all over and it served as a comic relief for white folks at the expense of slaves.

Slavery was pure racism and I think that it is incredibly important to study and learn about. It shows how much racism we still have happen every day, the only difference is that they are no longer slaves and they do have rights. The conversation has changed to that they are all criminals and one can assume one day our future will gasp at the things that occur today just as we gasp at what happened in the antebellum period. I included in my padlet post a museum that was a plantation that had many slaves. It is still in its original condition and shows people that are touring the low-quality life that too many slaves were forced into.

I highlighted most aspects of slavery and none of them were positive notes. Slavery was and is an awful thing to do that we should be embarrassed of but continue to educate ourselves and our youths about to stop from repeating and hopefully only get better and realize that race should not be a negative thing. Looking back and reflecting on our countries history is critical to our future and to the lives of those who we did an injustice to.

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The wanted posters from the antebellum period almost all contain this same image of a man walking in nice clothes, items that were stolen in a cloth over his shoulder. Then has the vaguest of descriptions to identify the slave. The people of these times though of slaves as all the same person and it showed well through these wanted posters. The image makes the slaves seem 'ape' like and less than human. This made it so any one could bring any human that was African American and claim it to be the missing slave.

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chapter 4: kansas territory: the saga of bleeding kansas

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200 Reward! for runaway slaves - Kansas Memory

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It is very important to understand that slavery stemmed from people and that they did use the Bible as leverage in doing so. This article very much involves the shared majority opinion that slavery is wrong while also showing the reader that the idea of slavery came from the Bible and the slavery/curse of Ham and his brothers in Genesis 9. The arguments main statement according to umich.edu was, "[The pro-slavery argument] which stated that slavery was an institution ordained by God. This argument was used as a defense against the abolitionists charging them with acting against God's will". This argument was used but we now see that it was altered in a way to cater to the needs of people who simply did not want to do their own chores.

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Slavery, the word has a bitter taste flowing off the tongue. Instantaneous images of inhumane conditions appear that give an aversion to saying the word. Now on the brink of the 21st century, slavery is such an ancient practice that it is embedded within every society.

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This article describes a caricature that "contains a little truth surrounded by a larger lie" (ferris). This caricature was created by the white man to display a happy slave. This helped to make the ideas of the slaves sexually abused not likely and highlight ugliness, from this alone we know the white man created the caricature to create lies.

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The Mammy Caricature - Anti-black Imagery - Jim Crow Museum - Ferris State University

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Mammy is the most well known and enduring racial caricature of African American women. The Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University has more than 100 items with the mammy image, including ashtrays, souvenirs, postcards, fishing lures, detergent, artistic prints, toys, candles, and kitchenware. This article examines real mammies, fictional mammies, and commercial mammies.

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It is important to note that there was an argument for slavery and that it held up for a long time. "US History" does a great job providing details of this argument and the evidence they had for slavery, even though we now all understand how wrong it was. We are educated through Biblical passages that were altered in such a way to help the white man justify owning slaves and even our very own Constitution claimed the rights that white men had on their property (slaves).

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The Southern Argument for Slavery [ushistory.org]

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This video provides a great example of that fact that we need to continue to learn from the effects of antebellum slavery, it is from 2015 and people still tear up and gasp at the things they see from this museum. This video shows glimpses of statues that are purposefully placed in certain parts of the museum in certain ways to get the full effects of life back in the antebellum period.

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Whitney Plantation museum confronts painful history of slavery

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In Antebellum America, slavery was fully alive, and especially in the South. Slaves were used for anything white men needed, most of which was farm work, plantations, and in the homes. This PBS article highlights the work they do and the effects it had on the African Americans that were in slavery and heavily focused on how they were ‘property’ to their owners and were treated as such. The African American slaves were abused, stripped of everything including their own words and option to choose, they were owned, sold, and had not a single word against the white man. Some homes and owners took care of their slaves and developed relationships with them but according to thePBS article, the title of slave was always known and couldn’t be an ignored factor of their relationship. Many slaves were sexually assaulted, mistreated, malnutritioned and constantly threatened by the white men, which the PBS article also does a great job on adding details and the awfulness that these slaves were put through. All that this article covers is just a scrape of the surface explaining what African Americans had to go though. This article provides a great structure to educate someone who wants to know and educate themselves on slavery. This article provides some of the main focuses that would be beneficial to further research after gaining the general knowledge that they provide.

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Though slavery had such a wide variety of faces, the underlying concepts were always the same. Slaves were considered property, and they were property because they were black. Their status as property was enforced by violence -- actual or threatened. People, black and white, lived together within…