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Fugitive Slave Act
Required non-slave to assist in the returning of escaped slaves. -
Cotton Gin Invented
Unlike other cash crops,cotton was not complicated to grow.
-The cotton gin removed many barriers. -
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Edmund Ruffin Reform
Virginia planter
Promoted the us of Marl
Calcium rich seashell deposits
Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil
Called for farmer to plow deeper furrows,rotate crops and to upgrade their breeding stocks. -
Gabriel prossers
50 armed slaves around Richmond
failed to gain control of a main road to Richmond
Someone tipped off the white authorities
Prosser and 25 of his followers were executed -
German coast uprising
Several hundred. poorly armed, slaves march on New Orleans
U.S Army troops and state militia stop the march more than 60 slaves died.
-The heads of the leaders were posted on poles along the Mississippi River as a warning -
Slavery declines in the Upper South
Were able to hire themselves out
Compensate their owners and they could keep the difference. -
Nat turner's Rebellion
Turner, A literature field hand,believed that he saw signs from heaven calling for vengeance against white oppressors
Led a small band of followers
Killed his owner the first day
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edmund ruffin
Edmund Ruffin, was a wealthy Virginia slaveholder and a political activist in the mid 1850's