The Institution of Slavery

Insurrection

A rising against an established authority.

Indentured

Bound by contract to serve or work for a period of time.

Emancipation societies wanted to do away with slavery because of their interest in slaves as:

Human Beings.

The American Colonization Society planned to send freed slaves to:

Liberia

Slavery soon proved to be impractical in the _____, but the invention of the cotton gin made it profitable in the ____.

North; South

No one but the ____ objected morally to slavery until the early 1800s.

Quakers

Emancipation

Setting free from slavery.

Why was slavery a paradox?

Slavery was a Paradox because slaves wee considered human beings physically, but legally they were nothing more than property.

Which group proved to be more profitable because they were permanent possessions of their master?

Slaves.

Before the 1830s, more emancipation societies existed in the:

South than in the North.

After which war did slavery decline because ideas toward individual freedom were changing, and people were starting to respect human rights?

The Revolutionary War.

Southerners defended slavery by stating that slaves were necessary for economic survival.

True