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Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department

Breakout Session 3: Coping with Labor Scarcity in the New World From Servitude to Slavery and “Free” Labor. Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department. Some Numbers. Free migrants (~1600-1775) About ½ million total emigrated to British American colonies

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Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department

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  1. Breakout Session 3:Coping with Labor Scarcity in the New WorldFrom Servitude to Slavery and “Free” Labor Jenny Wahl Carleton College Economics Department

  2. Some Numbers • Free migrants (~1600-1775) • About ½ million total emigrated to British American colonies • Of those, more than 350,000 via indenture • Slaves (~1500-1900) • About 12 million left Africa, about 10 million arrived in Americas • By 1808 (end of trans-Atlantic trade to US), only 6% of African slaves landing in New World had come to North America • Population as of 1790 • 2.8 million free whites • 58,000 free non-whites • 682,000 slaves

  3. Percent Non-White by Original Colony, 1750, 1790, 1810, 1860

  4. Net Slave Imports, VA and MD, 1698-1774

  5. Indentured Servants  Slaves (South) and Servants (North) • Demography of blacks in North America • Benefits of native-born slaves • Improved wages in England • Cheaper Atlantic passage • Demography of whites in North America • Regional diversity – plantation crops in South, manufactories in North

  6. Jefferson’s Runaway Slave (1769)

  7. Indigo Exports (SC and GA), 1755-1772

  8. Rice Exports (SC and GA), 1698-1774

  9. Tobacco Imports into England, 1697-1775

  10. Distribution of Wealth by Region, 1774

  11. Northern Colonial Slavery

  12. Percent of Free Non-Whites by Original Colony, 1790, 1810, 1860

  13. Pennsylvania Slave Advertisement

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