HIST 213 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Free Soil Party, Soup Kitchen, Blackbirding
7 Feb 2018
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The abolition of slavery and the new labour migrants. New migratory movements - 1450-1800: indenture - globalized migration overseas/long-distance from india, china, portugal, and africa, settlers - european migrants moving to colonize. 1450 - 1700 : 9-12m population migration 1800 - 1900 : 70-75m population migration. Abolition in context: first in the anglo-american world and britain e. 19c. Sources: rhetoric surrounds free wage labour in the factories and refracts against slavery in the colonies and becoming a political issue, rise is slave rebellions across the colonies in the americas, some turning into revolutions. ex. Haiti: reformed church group elites, called the quakers were a humanitarian network pushing abolitionism - essentially the crazies of the 1750"s that became influence industrialists and mps. 1801, slave trade is abolished britain feels it itself at a disadvantage so it forces other countries to abolish their slave trade, policing sea lanes to free slaves.
