Research Topics - Works Cited

Harriet Jacobs

• Born in the year of 1813 in Edenton, North Carolina.
• Harriet's mother was named Delilah and was the daughter of a slave named Molly Horniblow. Her father, Daniel Jacobs, was a carpenter and slave to Andre Knox, a doctor, and was the son of Henry Jacobs, a white man. 
• Harriet never knew she was a slave until her mother died when she was six years old.
• When Harriet's mother died and moved in with her grandmother, her grandmother's mistress Margaret taught Harriet to read and sew.
• Harriet Jacobs' accomplishments is her autobiography, titled Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl; published in 1861.

Slave Trade

• Slaves were terribly treated  on their way to the New World. 
• Slaves were traded for goods such as oil, cloth, etc.
• Slaves were barely well fed, and most did not survive. 
• in 1808, Congress bans the importation of slaves from Africa. 

Slavery and settings in North America

• At the beginning, not much slaves were imported, but the number of slave imported increasingly grew during the years.
• Slaves were used for hard work, such as building ships.

Fugitive Slave Act/Law

• This Act was during the 1850's
• Compromise of 1850
• Runaway Slaves were caught.
• This act protected properties of the masters and didn't give slaves any rights. 

Abolition Movement

• Whites and Blacks fought against slavery.
•  Emancipation Proclamation took place.
• Abraham Lincoln was elected, and wanted to stop slavery.
• John Brown, Harriet Tubman, and William Lloyd Garrison wanted to stop slavery in their own ways.

Plantation Life

• If slaves didn't work hard enough, they were often treated brutally or killed by their master.
• Slaves worked so many hours.
• Slaves mostly picked cotton for their masters.

WORKS CITED
http://www.bowdoin.edu/~prael/projects/gsonnen/Page1.html
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/jaco-har.htm
http://cghs.dadeschools.net/african-american/europe/slave_trade.htm
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
http://wysinger.homestead.com/mapofafricadiaspora2.html
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Slave_Trade.aspx
http://www.religioustolerance.org/sla_hist.htm
http://www.usconstitution.net/fslave.html
http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/brief.htm

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/plantation.htm