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SLAVERY Notes. FQ: How did the government view African Americans, and how did that change over time?. Spanish and Portuguese tradition Practice extended to New World Use of Indian slaves. English colonies use indentured servants English colonists turn to slave labor.

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SLAVERY Notes

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  1. SLAVERY Notes FQ: How did the government view African Americans, and how did that change over time?

  2. Spanish and Portuguese tradition • Practice extended to New World • Use of Indian slaves

  3. English colonies use indentured servants English colonists turn to slave labor

  4. Rum and guns traded for slaves. • Slaves to the Americas traded for sugar. + = Power

  5. = More = More Slaves Power

  6. Sugar shipped to the English colonies and traded for rum, guns. • The cycle would then begin again.

  7. Horrific experience. 10%-20% of the passengers on each ship would die. Slaves were often chained together.

  8. They would have to sit almost the entire journey with no or little ventilation. • The slaves were not fed very well nor given much to drink.

  9. Slaves suffered from illness and injury.

  10. South economically dependent on slavery. Jefferson Jackson Washington

  11. The US was worried about more pressing issues. • The government compromised over slavery until the Civil War became inevitable.

  12. Cover your eyes

  13. Cover your eyes

  14. As property meaning no rights or protections Dred Scott was a slave that sued for his freedom because his master took him to free territory. Supreme Court ruled he was property and could not file a law suit.

  15. Cover your eyes

  16. The 14th Amendment gave African Americans citizenship in America

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