Does anyone know a good resource for finding about the economic status of former slaves after Reconstruction?
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try doing a search on the antebellum south I was researching Mississippi and found barbeque postcards which were postcards of a lynching victim and there were links to archived sites that had actual interviews from slaves. former slaves and witnesses during that era maybe you'll be able to locate some archived financial information as well there was also a link to sites that claimed to record accurate not pop culture history, sorry I don't remember the sites I just remember how I got there
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fredrick_Douglas#Abolitionist_Activities
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http://www.thehistorynet.com/index.html
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I put "economic consequences of civil war" in my search engine and found the following information on the Civil war:\n\nCivil War – Consequences\n·    530,000 people died – larger than those in WWI & WWII combined\n·    abolition of slavery mounted to 1 billion dollar of ‘confiscated’ property\n·    w/o southern states to block, the ‘union’ passed important measures aimed at assisting US western expansion – Homestead Act & Pacific RR Act\n·    Republicans focused on economic & industrial policies (also, came to represent patriotism & national unity)\n·    The USA prior to Civil War was a plural, after a singular  (from the USA do to USA does)\n\nReconstruction\n·    Lincoln & Johnson wanted to accept the southern states back on the most generous terms possible\n·    One could not try each individual offender in the south of treason\n·    So, once a certain portion of the population took an oath of loyalty, the state could return and receive a pardon\n·    Republican Senator Charles Sumner felt these ‘ways’ were too timid\n·    He wanted more attention on the slaves and their rights\n·    Former slaves should have all the civil rights that whites held – including the right to vote\n·    Proposed Federal supervision – i.e. troops w/ bayonets to assist in the change\n·    Black Codes helped Sumner’s point be understood\n·    The Black community became, in effect, collectively the property of all southern whites\n·    Black school houses began being burned by 1866 \n·    in New Orleans, US Army had to halt uprisings against blacks\n·    In Louisanna, 3000 blacks were killed between 1866 – 76\n·    KKK emerges w/ former Confederate veteran soldiers\n\nTry "economic results of Civil war" to find more info on economic results and "outcome of civil war" or "compare north and south in civil war" for reasons for the south's loss.  \n\nhttp://www.swcivilwar.com/index.htm
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http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/tr00.html#decl\n\nhttp://www.ushistory.org/declaration/timeline.htm\n\nGo to these links.
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yes, here is a full bio on harriet tubman.\n\nIts easy to follow and is broken up into sections. \n\nJust click on the link i have provided. :)
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/\n03/23/world/main682673.shtml\n\n www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/\nfrontline/slaves \n\nmsnbc.msn.com/id/\n3042166 \n\narchives.cnn.com/2001/\nWORLD/europe/03/08/\nwomen.trafficking \n\nedition.cnn.com/2003/\nWORLD/asiapcf/southeast/\n11/27/thailand.sex.ap \n\nwww.suntimes.com/\nspecial_sections\n/traffic/\ncst-nws-traffic07.html \n\nboston.com/news/nation/\narticles\n/.../\nbush_assails_cuba_over_\nsex_trade \n\nnews.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/\n3686173.stm \n\nwww.usatoday.com/news/world/\n2003-06-12-sex-trade_x.htm \n\nwww.american.edu/projects/\nmandala/TED/myansex.htm \n\nthebatt.com/.../Opinion/\nU.n-Must.Stop.Foreign.Sex.\nTrade-518085.shtml \n\nwww.cbsnews.com/stories/\n2003/02/24/world/\nmain541762.shtml \n\nwww.uri.edu/artsci/wms/\nhughes/iran_sex_slave_trade \n\nwww.cbc.ca/toronto/story/\nto_sex-trade20060223.\nhtml?ref=rss \n\nwww.sextradeworkersof\ncanada.com\n/home/terms.asp \n\nnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/\n1038877.stm \n\nboston.com/news/nation\n/.../10/31/\ncampaigner_against_sex\n_trade_honored \n\nwww.prisonplanet.com/\namerican_firm_in_bosnia\n_sex_trade_row.html \n\nwww.usatoday.com/news/\nnation/\n2001/09/10/sex-trade.htm \n\nwww.asiapacificms.com/\narticles/nepal_sex_trade \n\nwww.worldnetdaily.com/\nnews/\narticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID\n=26296 \n\nwww.stanford.edu/class/e297b/\nThe Worldwide Sex Slave\n Trade.doc \n\nocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/\narticle?AID=/\n20060620/OPINION\n/.../OPINION01 \n\nwww.infowars.com/print/\nnwo/\nun_nato_sexslaves.htm \n\nwww.uri.edu/artsci/wms/\nhughes/\nsex_trade_ring \n\nwww.hawaii.edu/global/\nprojects_activities/\nTrafficking/Sex_Trade.pdf \n\nwww.utne.com/webwatch/\n2005_197/\nnews/11657-1.html \n\nconservativegoddess\n.redstate.com/story/\n2006/2/11/4401/22990 \n\nwww.csmonitor.com/\n2005/0511/\np15s02-woeu.html
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This is a great source... and if it's not in their database, they'll research it.\n\nGood luck
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There were white slaves too no one ever mentions them and the freed black people had slaves too. If you show me someone who was an actual slave not just a decedent of one yes..my ancestors were slaves too and the people that want \nreparations are just to lazy to get jobs in my mind.\n\nhttp://www.revisionisthistory.org/forgottenslaves.html
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I don't know any good ones specifically but Wikkipedia would be good. Some slaves were allowed to go to church long as there was a sheriff outside the window, making sure the pastor didn't talk abuot freedom or something. Hope this helps! Good luck on your paper.
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Try www.geneology.com or you can look up records from Ellis Island.
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Very few because there isn't any documentation of slaves and what they have are bills of sale. You would have to be living to be able to prove anything.
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I.Slavery in the Colonies\n\na. South Carolina and Georgia\naa. low country near the coast ideal for growing rice and indigo\nindigo - type of plant used in making a blue dye for cloth\nab. blacks made the majority of the population\nac. had more plantations with 100 slaves or more than any other area\nad. lack of interaction allowed slaves in GA & SC to preserve some of their culture\nGullah language – combination of English and African\nae. many came directly from Africa\naf. many had grown rice in Africa\nb. Virginia and Maryland\nba. lives of slaves in VA & MD differed from those in GA & SC in 4 ways:\n1. slaves in VA & MD were a minority of the pop.\n2. few slaves came to VA & MD directly from Africa\n3. slaves did different work\ngrowing tobacco not as labor intensive as rice or indigo\nslaves did other tasks\n4. slaves in VA & MD had more regular contact with European Americans\nbb. high cost of slaves led some planters to encourage their slaves to raise families\nbc. some male slaves in VA worked away from plantations as artisans or laborers\nc. New England and Middle Colonies\nca. by late 1700s, about 400,000 blacks lived in Southern Colonies\nonly about 50,000 in N. Eng. & Middle Colonies combined\nfarms were much smaller\ncb. most slaves lived in cities\n\n II.Free Blacks\n\na. free black pop. In Northern & Southern colonies did not grow significantly until after Revolutionary War\nb. some slave laws discourage people from freeing slaves\nba. owners had to get permission from the legislature\nc. law demanded that freed slaves leave a colony within six months of gaining freedom\nd. free blacks did much of the same kind of work as slaves but were probably worse off materially\ne. endured poor living conditions and more severe discrimination\n\nIII.Laws and Revolts\n\na. every colony passed its own slave laws\nb. settlers in Georgia were barred from owning slaves in 1735\nba. the ban was lifted in 1750\nc. Virginia passed its first major slave code in 1680\nca. SC in 1690, revised 1696, 1712, & 1740\nd. slaves could not go aboard ships or ferries or leave the town limits without a pass\ne. 1739, several dozen slaves near Charleston killed more than twenty whites in the Stono Rebellion\nea. burned an armory and started toward Spanish Florida were a small colony of runaway slaves lived\neb. Were captured and killed by armed planters\n\n\n IV.Diverse Colonial Economies\n\na. Southern Colonies\naa. economy based on growing staple crops\nab. tobacco exports Virginia, Maryland, and Delaware:\n1700, 32 mil. pounds\n1770, 83.8 mil. pounds\nac. African slaves supplied most of the labor\n1650, only about 500 Africans in Virginia (3% of  pop.)\n1700, enslaved Africans totaled 16,000 (28% of Pop.)\nad. Except for Charleston, SC & Williamsburg, VA the South had few cities\nb. Middle Colonies\nba. economy a mixture of farming and commerce\nbb. farm crops included grains such as wheat, barley, and rye\nbc. Populations of N.Y. & Pennsylvania ethnically diverse\nc. New England Colonies\nca. 1700s, N. Eng. Colonies consisted of small self-sufficient farms and towns dependent on long distance trade\ncb. shipping and fishing important industries\ntriangular trade -a series of indirect routes used to conduct trade between the colonies and England - the trade ultimately carried raw materials to England and manufactured goods to the colonies\n\n\n  V.Industrial Innovation in America\n\na. Eli Whitney\naa. developed idea of interchangeable parts\nab. invented the cotton gin\nb. the invention of the cotton gin had several effects\n1) profit of cotton skyrocketed\n~ in the early 1800s, cotton was America’s most profitable export\n2) southern planters began to depend solely on cotton\n3) planters looked for new lands to grow crops\n4) increased the demand for slavery\n\n   VI.The Economy of the South\n\na. while the northeast urbanized, the South remained rural\nb. less than 8% of white southerners lived in t
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I am actually doing a report on this. I suggest you go to this website:  \nhttp://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/plantation_slave_life/default.htm\n\nIt helped me find out alot about slavery.
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Reparations in the United States have generally been limited to the survivors of government harm.  Watch your terminology, though - slavery was not a crime until 1865, since the government permitted slavery and only outlawed it through the Thirteenth Amendment after the Civil War.\n\nFor instance, the United States paid survivors of Japanese internment programs from WWII.  The program, however, was limited to survivors.  No survivors of slavery exist today.\n\nA current reparations program would be too bizarre to fathom.  All African-Americans were not harmed by slavery, after all, since some immigrated to America after slavery, or since some have no slave ancestors.  It would be virtually impossible to require proof of slave ancestry, and then to divide some sum proportionately.\n\nAdditionally, the vague "400 yr+ of oppression" is unhelpful in crafting legislation.  Slavery ended.  Segregation did exist also, that's ended for over 50 years now.  If you're problem with "White supremacy and injustice," then I'm afraid that no amount of money will solve the problem.  Instead, educating future generations and winning over hearts and minds is the most effective remedy to injustice.
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Here you go\nhttp://www.pbs.org/civilwar/
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois