He describes the humiliation of the slave sale in his account, Twelve Years a Slave: Solomon Northup, a free black from upstate New York, was abducted in this way and enslaved. Even in Northern states, those accused had no legal recourse.
The Fugitive Slave Law, passed in 1850, allowed the apprehension of any black suspected of being a runaway. Runaways were often tracked down and beaten harshly.
Slave families routinely suffered the pain of being broken up by the sale of children or spouses. The law forbade slaves from traveling except as directed by their owners. Owners sometimes punished slaves severely, most commonly by whipping. They worked the fields, did the laundry, cooked the food, and served their masters in whatever capacity was demanded. Slaves were considered property and lived in often squalid conditions in shacks or barracks on the large plantations. In the years before the Civil War, slaveowners (who amounted to about one-fourth of Southern whites) controlled every aspect of the slave’s life. Events in History at the Time of the Autobiography Slavery The book conveys his practical approach to black self-improvement, an approach that called for cooperation and compromise with white society. In 1901 Washington published his autobiography, Up from Slavery. Building on the school’s success, Washington rose to prominence in the 1890s, winning recognition as the nation’s leading African American spokesperson after the death of Frederick Douglass in 1895.
Washington founded and ran the Tuskegee Institute beginning in 1881, a school for African Americans in rural Alabama. An autobiography set in Alabama from the late 1850s to 1900 published in 1901.Ī self-trained African American leader recounts his early slave experience and his faith and beliefs as reflected in the Tuskegee Institute, a vocational school that he established for African Americans.Įvents in History at the Time of the AutobiographyĪ teacher and former slave, Booker T.
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