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What is the history of escalation of slavery in the American colonies?
What were the main influences on slave culture in the American colonies?
How did slavery come to shape the Southern economy?
Spanish and Portuguese slavery
Disease and labor
British engaged in established economy
Indentured servants are cheaper
1619- First purchase of slaves in Jamestown
1680s- Massive expansion is solidified
Approx 400,000 to North American colonies (mostly Virginia)
Slaves begin to outnumber whites
1698- Royal African Company loses monopoly on trade
Colonial Enterprise
Majority of Slaves came from West coast
Senegal and Angola
Cultural disparate
The Journey
Slave ships
10-15% loss
Slave Codes
Laws restricting lives of slaves
Colony specific
Common themes
ahistoric, but sets legal structure for future
Shaped by labor
Tobacco
Large, close together
Rice/Indigo
Warmer, more isolated
Gullah
Slave language
Carolina, Georgia, Florida
Built the plantations they worked on
Unskilled
Cleared land
Skilled
Masons/brick layers, tanners
Economic backbone of South
Growing gap in wealth among whites
1- Planter class
hundreds of slaves
2- Small farmers (majority)
5-20 slaves
3- Landless whites
4- former indentured servants
Constantly worried about revolts
Agriculture based
No growing metropolitan centers
Slow growth of professional class
Doctors, lawyers
Canals
Moved heavy goods easily
Roads are not maintained