Sunday, February 27, 2011

Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Slavery

Slavery
a.) Blacks became slaves in the American Colonies during the 1600's. People were getting more slaves in the South where large plantations grew cotton and other crops. These plantations needed many workers to take care of the farms. People in the North didn't need slaves because they didn't have as many large farms as the South did. The first English colony in North America, Virginia, first imported Africans in 1619.
b.) These black slaves were bought from Africa.
c.)Farmers and bosses who owned labour-intensive businesses.
d.) Yes, there were. Prop VI. " The slave, being personal chattel, is at all times Each slave is liable to be sold absolutely, or mortgaged or leased, at the will of his master"
Prop. XI "Slaves cannot redeem themselves, nor obtain a change of masters, though cruel treatment may have rendered such change necessary for their personal safety"
Prop. X. "Slaves being objects of property, if injured by third persons, their owners, may bring suit, and recover damages for the injury."
Prop. XI "Slaves can make no contract."
Prop. XII “Slavery is hereditary and perpetual”(G
Slaves could not stop working until their master allowed them to.
• A curfew existed for slaves, who had to be indoors by ten o'clock at night. If they were out later they were required to carry a pass and a lantern.
• Slaves were not allowed passage through the streets of Cape Town on horseback or in a wagon.
• Slaves were forbidden to sing, whistle, or make any kind of sound at night.
• Slaves could not enter public houses or bars (taphuis) .
• Slaves could not congregate in groups on public holidays.
• Slaves were not allowed to wait near a church entrance during service.
• Slaves could not stop to converse on the streets of Cape Town, at risk of being publicly caned.
• Slaves who made false claims or insulted freemen of the Cape were to be punished by public flogging and to be held in chains.
• Slaves who proffered violence to their masters were to be put to death, no mercy may be shown to such offenders.
• Slaves were not permitted to carry, or own, firearms.

e.)In the novel To Kill A Mockingbird, the residents of Maycomb County detest black people. They think that these people are of the lowest echelon. Thus, it exemplifies Atticus’s regard toward negroes. I had a deeper understanding of why these people were so hateful towards black people.
a.)They are South Carolina, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Georgia, Arkansas, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi.
b.) Abraham Lincoln.
c.) The Union forces pitted themselves against the South to end slavery.
d.) It was between April 12, 1861 and April 9, 1865.
e.) The union forces won.
f.) The setting of the story takes place at the same time as the civil rights movement.
a.) Jim Crow is the subject of the music by Thomas Dartmouth, who liked to racistly badmouth black people through music and jokes.
b.) Jim Crow laws are legal social restrictions which segregates the blacks from whites.
c.)These black people got angry and thus started the Civil Rights Movement.
d.) Yes, like how difficult it was to try Robinson fairly because he was black, and the fact that he went to Mayella’s house already got him a lot of criticism even though Mayella was the one who had asked him to.