History of Louisiana Purchase and African-Americans
The 1803 Louisiana Purchase from France was caused by one of the few successful enslaved people rebellions during slavery. Toussaint L’Overture on St. Dominique (now Haiti and the Dominican Republic) bedeviled the French which made Napoleon decide to sell the Louisiana Territory to the United States. This doubled the size of the U.S. which has been heralded as crucial to the American path to becoming the world superpower. It also had profound effects upon African American slaves because the new territory would be organized into states that became the political and sometimes actual battlegrounds that led to the Civil War. “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s is the most obvious example. The Missouri Compromise of 1820 started the series of political compromises over slavery. One of the last compromises the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854, led to the creation of the Republican Party. Which the subsequent election of the first Republican President, Abraham Lincoln. The election of Lincoln to a divided nation led to the Civil War in 1861.
The Louisiana Purchase brought New Orleans into the United States. New Orleans would quickly become a striving community of free Black people which provided a living example of Black equality. The other parts of the new territory, over the years preceding the Civil War, attracted free men and women of color.
Sources:
Tamblyn, G. (2007, January 29) Louisiana Purchase and African Americans (1803). Retrieved from https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/louisiana-purchase-and-african-americans-1803/
John Hope Franklin and Alfred A. Moss, Jr., From Slavery to Freedom: A History of African Americans (Alfred A. Knopf, New York 1994);
http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/lewisandclark/louisiana.html
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