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American Slavery

Essential Questions

Essential Questions

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?

Expansion

Precedent in Americas

Spanish and Portuguese slavery

Disease and labor

British engaged in established economy

Slavery Before Bacon's Rebellion

Indentured servants are cheaper

1619- First purchase of slaves in Jamestown

Slavery After Bacon's Rebellion

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

Importation of African Slaves

Middle Passage

Majority of Slaves came from West coast

Senegal and Angola

Cultural disparate

The Journey

Slave ships

10-15% loss

Auction Block

Slave Society

Slave Society

Slave Codes

Laws restricting lives of slaves

Colony specific

Common themes

  • Could not own property
  • Could not assemble (w/o presence of whites)
  • Could not leave plantation without pass
  • Could not sue a white person
  • Could not marry without permission
  • Could be executed (not all colonies)
  • Illegal to teach to read or write

ahistoric, but sets legal structure for future

Slave Culture

Shaped by labor

Tobacco

Large, close together

Rice/Indigo

Warmer, more isolated

Gullah

Slave language

Carolina, Georgia, Florida

Slavery Contributions

Built the plantations they worked on

Unskilled

Cleared land

Skilled

Masons/brick layers, tanners

Economic backbone of South

Southern Economy

Southern Social Organization

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

Southern Economy

Agriculture based

No growing metropolitan centers

Slow growth of professional class

Doctors, lawyers

Canals

Moved heavy goods easily

Roads are not maintained

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