Abolition Sample Clauses

Abolition. Abolishing clause 4 under Article 2, Article 3, Article 5, Article 7, Article 8, Appendix I, Appendix II.

Abolition. The same scares that the Haitian Revolution had generated in Cuba during the 1790s were experienced in various parts of the US South. David Brion Davis has argued that the impact of the Haitian Revolution can be compared to that of the Hiroshima Bomb, whose meaning could be neglected but never forgotten. The uprising had contradictory effects in the United States. On the one hand, as in Cuba, it stimulated the expansion of crop production based on slave labor and led some planters to rationalize the event in ways that exonerated the transatlantic slave trade. The connection between the US purchase of Louisiana in 1803, which had been receiving many of the Saint Domingue refugees since the 1790s, and the reopening of the transatlantic slave trade to South Carolina is perhaps the best example of those dynamics. Unlike Cuba, however, a strong opposition to the traffic had emerged not only in the North but also in parts of the 66 Reproductions of the plans can be seen in Coughtry, Jay, ed. Papers of the American Slave Trade. Black Studies Research Sources. Bethesda, Md: University Publications of America, 1996 and Chambers, Stephen. “At Home Among the Dead: North Americans and the 1825 Guamacaro Slave Insurrection.” Journal of the Early Republic 33, no. 1 (2013): 61–86. For a document with Sabins as slave captain see Brooks and Mouser, “An 1804 Slaving Contract.” South itself. Planters of the Chesapeake as we have seen had opposed the transatlantic traffic since the Constitutional Convention for a combination of moral and material interests. Images of Saint Domingue provided a powerful tool to northern and southern opponents of the traffic and helped create the context for passing the slave trade act of 1807.67 Fear of slave insurrection in the South was not new, since the region had seen a few revolts before. The largest of them, the Stono Rebellion of 1739 – when approximately sixty armed slaves killed over twenty whites as they marched toward Florida – pushed South Carolina to pass a slave code with new regulations for both blacks and whites and impose a prohibitive duty (£100 per captive) on the importation of enslaved Africans into the state. The duty was passed in 1740 and valid only for three years. By 1744 a few slave disembarkations took place in the state but only by the 1750s would the numbers of disembarked Africans reach levels comparable to the 1730s. The same tensions between the fear of black majorities and the desire for laborers would be at w...