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Pgs 72-80 Reading Quiz. Explain how this picture relates to the assigned readings using evidence from the reading Before you ask: NO you can’t use your books!!!. Early Slavery. Origins of Slavery. Slavery goes as far back as 1800 bce Code of Hammurabi - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Pgs 72-80 Reading Quiz
• Explain how this picture relates to the assigned readings using evidence from the reading– Before you ask: NO
you can’t use your books!!!
Origins of Slavery
• Slavery goes as far back as 1800 bce– Code of Hammurabi
• Civilizations have used various forms of slavery– Warfare most common
• New World Slavery– Comes from lack of labor
• Mines and cultivation of cash crops
• Curse of Ham
Origins in the Colonies• Chesapeake Bay
– Slavery began very small• 4,500 in 1640
– Growth of Tobacco industry demands labor• Indentured servitude did not provide the labor force• Native-Americans
– Unwilling and cold escape easily
• Blacks– Terms of service never expired– Could not escape– “accustomed” to agricultural work– Resistance to disease
The English
• Viewed alien people with disdain– Modern views of race did not exist– Division between civilized and uncivilized or
Christianity and heathenism
• West Indies– Majority worked sugar plantation in Carribean– Population growth
• The America’s– Slow start because of price
Africa and the Trade
• Few African societies opted out of the trade
• European goods– Textiles and guns
• Kingdoms– Ashanti and Dahomey– With European goods, kingdoms expanded
• Captured prisoners sent to factories on the coast• Sold into slavery
American Slavery• Chesapeake
– Tobacco farming • Increased demand meant increased supply
– Small farms turn into large plantations– Spreads west as does slavery– By 1770 there are 270,000 slaves
– Work• Males- worked fields but also served as teamsters,
boatmen, worked in skilled crafts (blacksmiths)• Women- seamstresses, dairy maids, personal
servants, wet nurses, etc.
– Law• Enhanced control over slaves• Enhanced restrictions on freedom• Increasingly becomes about color
• Southern Slavery– Rice production dominates the South
• This will eventually change to cotton• Enitially used Native-Americans• Early slaves had more freedoms, but as rice
increased so did restrictions
• Georgia
• Northern Slavery– Slavery not essential to northern economies– One or two slaves was the norm
• Farm hands, artisans, dock workers, personal servants
– No threat meant less restrictions• Marriages, punishment, court
Slave Culture• Not one people
– Only later would Africans recognize their unity– Came from different regions of Africa
• Different languages, beliefs, cultures, religions
– Chesapeake• Climate allowed reproduction• Exposure to white culture
– Religion and language
– South Carolina• Harsh climate, less contact with whites• Larger cities, sexual relations
Resistance
• Runaway slaves
• Passive Resistance– Breaking work tools, taking time
• Rebellion– 1st in New York in 1712– 1730-1741
• Imperial conflicts led to revolts across the West Indies and America