Slavery and American Revolution

Slavery during the American Revolution to the Civil war and beyond.

I. Slavery during the 1730’s through 1820’s.

A. Antislavery movements 1730’s-1770’s

B. Expansion of Slavery 1770’- 1820’s

II. Slavery during the Confederacy

A. Slavery as a Southern right

B. Groups pushing for social change.

III. Slavery and ethnic races

A. Connections between Blacks and Native Americans

B. Connections between the whites and Native Americans

C. Civil War post racial America

IV. Conclusion

Thesis Statement

My goal here is to bring about race or slavery issues that may not have been highlighted during the times of the Revolutionary War and up to and possibly beyond the Civil war. Particularly Native Americans but I want to touch on all the races during these times. When I think of the Revolutionary war I don’t think of slavery but slavery was going on during that time. And I think that is true of most people’s thinking of the Revolutionary War. But when the Civil War is brought up, slavery is first thing that come to mind. But I always think of the whites and blacks during the Civil War. How did the Natives Americans fit into the picture and how were they affected?

Slavery: Before the Revolution and Beyond

William Cummings

Professor Robert Barnes

History 223

23 November 2013

Slavery was alive and well long before the Civil War. It goes back as far as 1730’s and saw rapid growth from 1770 up to 1820. American Native Americans played a major role in the slavery as well, both as slave hunters and slave owners.

I am starting with antislavery movement in order to give a timeline of how far back slavery goes back in history. In the history of the Atlantic antislavery movement, two events were of great importance: the Great Awakening and the American Revolution. In the 1730s and 1740s, many evangelicals stimulated by the religious revival, travelled to the opposite side of...