Mount Pleasant General Hospital Brussels Belgium (1985 renewed 2002 and 2011) 11 Effects of the Revolution While each state had its own slave code many concepts were shared throughout the slave states. According to the slave codes some of which were passed in reaction to slave rebellions teaching a slave to read or write was illegal This prohibition was unique to American slavery believed to reduce slaves forming aspirations that could lead to escape or rebellion. Informal education occurred when white children taught slave companions what they were learning; in other cases adult slaves learned from free artisan workers especially if located in cities where there was more freedom of movement. 6.1 Emergence as Republican leader 5.2.2 Noted collections of the Founding Fathers 2.2.3 Legal apprenticeships Washington D.C. Business Directory Henry Clay takes the floor of the Old Senate Chamber; Vice President Millard Fillmore presides as John C Calhoun (to the right of the Speaker's chair) and Daniel Webster (seated to the left of Clay) look on. Wilmot Proviso Washington retreated across the Delaware to Pennsylvania but returned to New Jersey on January 3 launching an attack on British regulars at Princeton with 40 Americans killed or wounded and 273 British killed or captured. American Generals Hugh Mercer and John Cadwalader were being driven back by the British when Mercer was mortally wounded then Washington arrived and led the men in a counterattack which advanced to within 30 yards (27 m) of the British line. .
11.5 Status of African Americans, There were economic and ethnic differences between free blacks of the Upper South and Deep South with the latter fewer in number but wealthier and typically of mixed race Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside with most living in New Orleans and Charleston Especially New Orleans had a large relatively wealthy free black population (gens de couleur) composed of people of mixed race who had become a third social class between whites and enslaved blacks under French and Spanish colonial rule Relatively few non-white slaveholders were "substantial planters" Of those who were most were of mixed race often endowed by white fathers with some property and social capital for example Andrew Durnford of New Orleans was listed as owning 77 slaves. According to Rachel Kranz: "Durnford was known as a stern master who worked his slaves hard and punished them often in his efforts to make his Louisiana sugar plantation a success.". .
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