LIFE IN ANTEBELLUM AMERICA 1807 1861
SLAVERY IN AMERICA COTTON SLAVE TRADE AND THE SOUTHERN RESPONSE
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Their labor built parts of the University of Virginia
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Their sale secured the financial future of Georgetown.
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Profits from the slave trade helped fund Harvard, Yale and Brown.
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Princeton set aside spaces for men who had escaped slavery beginning in 1845.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sixteen out of Princeton University’s first twenty-three trustees “bought, sold, traded, or inherited slaves during their lifetimes” and the school had “deep and intimate ties to human bondage.” The first nine presidents of Princeton University enslaved people.
Detailed explanation-2: -In South Carolina (Carolina was divided in 1663 into the North Carolina region and South Carolina region and into two colonies in 1701), however, slaves constituted a larger proportion of the total population than in any other colony-sixty percent of the population in 1765.
Detailed explanation-3: -Initially African-Americans had essentially no exposure to formal schooling, as a legacy of the extremely high rates of illiteracy that existed under slavery. The first generations of former slaves were able to complete far fewer years of schooling, on average, than whites.
Detailed explanation-4: -Before Emancipation, whites generally denied or restricted African Americans’ access to education in an effort to justify and maintain slavery. Learning to read therefore became a symbol of freedom for African Americans in the former slave-holding states.