African American Experience
Antislavery in the South
- Antislavery efforts in the South were largely limited to unsuccessful rebellions by enslaved people.
- Largely limited to and unsuccessful are both careful — the CED is describing constraint, not absence of effort.
- Paired with 4.11's antislavery movements increased in the North, this is the sectional divergence stated at its sharpest.
The CED says antislavery efforts in the South were...
Describing constraint, not absence of effort.
What was created, not only endured
- Enslaved blacks and free African Americans created communities and strategies to protect their dignity and family structures, and they joined political efforts aimed at changing their status.
- The verb is created, and the objects are communities and strategies — this is agency, stated plainly.
- Joined political efforts aimed at changing their status puts African Americans inside the reform politics of 4.11, not outside it.
Select both things the CED says African Americans created.
Agency, stated plainly.
Free and enslaved, in one sentence
- The CED names enslaved blacks and free African Americans together as makers of communities and strategies.
- Their legal situations differ completely, and the CED still treats the response as continuous across both.
- 4.11 already recorded the free population growing through Northern emancipation, so the two groups are connected demographically as well.
A constraint, an act of creation, or a change?
Sort each element of African American experience, 1800-1848.
The CED says African Americans joined political efforts aimed at changing their status.
Inside the reform politics of 4.11, not outside it.
The CED's verb is created. Enslaved and free African Americans created communities and strategies to protect their dignity and family structures, and... joined political efforts aimed at changing their status — agency stated plainly, with constraints around it rather than in front of it.
Select all the continuities this lesson names.
Emancipation in this period was Northern.
Continuity and change, in the objective's own words
- The objective asks for continuities and changes in the experience of African Americans from 1800 to 1848.
- Change: emancipation in the North, a growing free population, participation in reform politics.
- Continuity: slavery expanding in the South and west (4.13), rights restricted by many state governments, and community and family strategies maintained throughout.
2.6's earlier statement of the same point is that resistance used overt and ____ means.
The two connect directly.
Writing this subtopic
- Use the CED's own verb — created — as the spine of the answer, and put the constraints around it rather than in front of it.
- That produces an accurate account in which people act under conditions, which is what the evidence supports.
- 2.6's overt and covert means is the earlier statement of the same point, and the two connect directly.
Two people in different legal positions can build the same institution — a congregation, a school, a network that keeps families in contact. Their rights differ; what they made does not.
Antislavery efforts in the South were largely limited to unsuccessful rebellions by enslaved people, while antislavery movements increased in the North. Enslaved blacks and free African Americans created communities and strategies to protect their dignity and family structures, and they joined political efforts aimed at changing their status. The change is Northern emancipation and a growing free population; the continuity is slavery's expansion, restricted rights, and community strategies maintained throughout.