The Growth of Slavery

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  1. Hi. We're going to go over the growth of slavery,
  2. which is one of the lessons in edge innuit e
  3. indentured servants, Indentured servants In colonial times, an indentured servant
  4. signed an agreement to work for a set time in
  5. exchange for room, board and transportation to the colonies.
  6. Indention labored existed throughout the colonies.
  7. Southern planetary ations needed more workers than the system could
  8. provide. Key features of an indentured servant.
  9. First of all, it was temporary.
  10. They went free at the end of the term of
  11. service. They had legal rights, many basic legal rights such
  12. as the right to own property.
  13. It was voluntary.
  14. Most indentured servants came by choice.
  15. Uncertain supply events overseas might reduced the number of indentured
  16. servants indention servitude in the colonies.
  17. There was a legal system of slavery.
  18. In the first few decades of the American colonies, Africans
  19. and whites often worked as indentured servants.
  20. Contract terms and punishments were the same for Africans and
  21. whites. Labor supply Ah, costly labor supply.
  22. Indentured servants came with costs.
  23. Replacements were needed.
  24. When the indentured expired, freedom dues were paid at the
  25. end of the service, land became lesson thought, less available
  26. and freed servants posed a threat.
  27. Southern plantation owners wanted a less costly labor source.
  28. They turned to slavery, the development of slavery.
  29. In the mid 16 hundreds, new laws began to create
  30. create an official system of slavery it allowed for lifelong
  31. slavery. It made it legal to own slaves for their
  32. entire lives.
  33. Slavery had no end.
  34. It also allowed people to be born into slavery.
  35. Laws made Children born into enslaved people, slaves as well.
  36. New laws and the enslaved new laws changed the lives
  37. of enslaved people.
  38. They had no chance for freedom.
  39. They were legally considered property and not people in the
  40. colonies. Enslaved people were treated as chattel.
  41. Chattel means property or something that is owned other than
  42. property, such as an enslaved person.
  43. Because they were property, they were subject to harsh restrictions
  44. subject to severe punishment.
  45. And they were without legal rights, slave codes for controlling
  46. enslaved people.
  47. The system of slavery was enforced through slave codes.
  48. Under the slave codes, enslaved people were not allowed to
  49. assemble unless a white person was present.
  50. They could not own firearms.
  51. They were not allowed to marry, and they did not
  52. learn to read and write the purpose of the slave
  53. codes were designed to eliminate slave rights.
  54. It kept the enslaved people frightened and powerless.
  55. It gave slaveholders absolute power over slaves, protected slaveholders from
  56. revolts and violence, and it maintained their labor force.
  57. Enslaved people had few rights.
  58. They could not testify in court against whites.
  59. They could not enter into a contract.
  60. They could not own property.
  61. They could not strike a white person, and they could
  62. not leave an owner's premises without permission.
  63. If you look at the map, this is the slavery
  64. in the 13 colonies.
  65. The further north you went, the lower the percentage of
  66. slaves There were slavery in New England.
  67. Massachusetts was actually the first colony to legally recognize slavery.
  68. However, slavery was not wide spread.
  69. Enslaved people worked as farmers in manual labors, artisan shipping,
  70. dark dock hands and household servants.
  71. In the middle colonies like New England, enslaved people worked
  72. in a variety of trades in the middle colonies.
  73. In some areas, slavery happened on plantations.
  74. They labored on large farms, and they cared for crops
  75. and worked in fields.
  76. This was especially common in Maryland Quakers in slavery, Quakers
  77. were a religious group, with many followers in the middle
  78. colonies. Quakers did not approve of slavery.
  79. In 16 88 Pennsylvania German Quakers wrote a petition against
  80. slavery. It was the first document to protest slavery, and
  81. it was the first public statement of human rights in
  82. the South.
  83. Slavery in the South was different from other colonies.
  84. Most enslaved people lived in the South.
  85. Slavery happened on large plantations that raised cash, crops or
  86. crops raised for sale and export.
  87. It was grueling work.
  88. It was an isolating life.
  89. And there is a fear of revolt by enslaved people
  90. finding freedom.
  91. There was always a small number of free African Americans
  92. in the colonies.
  93. These people could become free by purchasing their freedom, escaping
  94. places where slavery was outlawed, or Manu mission, which is
  95. being frayed.
  96. Freed by their owners, the lives of free blacks, free
  97. blacks faced discrimination and did not have truly equal live
  98. truly equally with whites in the colonies, however, they could
  99. move about freely.
  100. They could marry, they could choose where toe work and
  101. they could seek an education.
  102. Most lived in cities.
  103. The challenges free African Americans faced many challenges.
  104. They were not treated with the same respect as whites
  105. could be kidnapped and sold back into slavery, and they
  106. could not testify in court against a white person.
  107. Now it's time to use the quiz link.
  108. To practice your quiz, feel free to look through the
  109. video as many times as you need and take notes.
  110. And when you practice your quiz, make sure you take
  111. notes so that you do well on the ingenuity quiz.