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Fugitive Slave Act
required non-slave states 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 -
Edmund Ruffin Reform
-Virginia planter
-Promoted the use of Marl
-Calcium rich seashell deposits
-Neutralized the highly acidic and worn out soil
Called for farmers to plow deeper furrows, rotate crops and to upgrade their breeding stock. -
Gabriel Prossers rebellion
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. -
Slavey 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 literate 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
-Killed 60 more white people the following 2 days