Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines how African Americans influenced the politics of slavery in the United States as they battled slavery and racism. It considers how African Americans, by refusing to submit easily to slavery and other abuses, helped keep slavery in the political mix and exacerbate sectionalism between North and South. It suggests that slaves and free blacks were more interested in gaining freedom and equality for themselves than in shaping the debates of white Americans. Owing to their assertiveness, African Americans played a major role in making slavery a sensitive political topic from the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade to the Missouri Crisis.
Publication Year: 2006
Publication Date: 2006-10-30
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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