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  • the life during the british rule was very different for the slaves
  • they still had very little to no rights
  • they had the same jobs
  • family life (wives & children)
  • runaway slaves

The middle colonies:

religious freedom

representative government.

How do we know?

William Penn: " All persons shall, in no ways, be molested or prejudiced for their religious persuasion...."

Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley, " tried to attract settlers by promising freedom of religion. They also promised large land grants and representative assembly."

Slaves were not given these rights

DAILY LIFE

(British Rule)

DAILY LIFE

The Slaves in the Middle Colonies Compared to the Southern Colony Slaves

(Dutch Rule)

  • Slaves in the middle colonies were treated a little better than in the southern colonies - Half freedom in Dutch New York
  • The middle colonies often used slaves as domestic servants
  • The slaves in the middle colonies didn't work on plantations like the slaves from the southern colonies did
  • Still treated very badly.... whipped and beaten

Slave codes: The contardiction

  • slaves had very little rights
  • first slave auction
  • slaves could be "half free"

Slaves could not meet in large groups or travel without a pass

Slaves could not vote in colonial New York

Lives of Slaves in the Southern Colonies

Slaves could not own property

Slaves reading

plantation life: crops, jobs

  • slaves that lived in the southern colonies had to work hard on plantations like tobacco, rice and sugar
  • these slaves weren't getting payed

social order:

  • slaves in the southern colonies where at the bottom of the social society

treatment:slave rights, punishment

  • during that time they could be beaten to death by their owners
  • they didn't have freedom

The Contradiction

Slavery in New York

  • There was slavery in New York

THE SLAVES OF NEW YORK COLONY

  • 20% of the population were slaves

Slave Society or a Society with Slaves?

  • 2 out of 5 houses had a slave
  • In Edgar J. McManus: "The Duke's representatives in New York -- governors, councilors, and customs officials -- were instructed to promote the importation of slaves by every possible means"

By Sydney Teresa Ford, Anna F Maher, Elias Almonte, Kevin Llivichuzhca

New York Colony was not a slave society, niether was New Amsterdam. Their economy didn't entierly depended on them. There were other jobs.

Dec. 5, 2013

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Differences From The Text Book

The End

Slavery in the textbook

Impression that slaves were not a big part of life in New York

http://www.slavenorth.com/says that, "The slave trade became a cornerstone of the New York economy"

Dutch slavery, not British

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