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Developing Racial Slavery

Developing Racial Slavery. Portuguese in Africa. First Europeans to explore African coast begin in early 1400s searching for route to India First Europeans to establish slave trade cannot conquer African states establish trade alliances with Africans Control trade from 1500-1700.

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Developing Racial Slavery

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  1. Developing Racial Slavery

  2. Portuguese in Africa • First Europeans to explore African coast • begin in early 1400s • searching for route to India • First Europeans to establish slave trade • cannot conquer African states • establish trade alliances with Africans • Control trade from 1500-1700

  3. Atlantic Slave Trade • 1501: 1st slaves to Hispanolia • 1591: permit-up to 38,250 slaves • 1619 1st African slaves in British N.America • Between 10-30 million Africans were exported

  4. Destination of Africans

  5. The Inhuman Trade Death Rate Century 25% 16th c. 15% 17th c. 10% 18th c. Grocery Stores keep waste below 3%

  6. Atlantic World 1800

  7. Transforming Slavery • The exportation of Africans changed slavery in African Europe and the Americas. The change in scale from thousands to tens and hundreds of thousands per year is one change. The industrial rather than domestic nature of slavery in the Americas was a second difference.

  8. mountain v. flatland river system climate The differences between the northern and southern U.S. meant that large scale plantation crops grew only in the South. Consequently, slaves were concentrated there. N-S Geography

  9. Population Distribution 1750 • Southern labor needs • limited immigration

  10. The Road Not Taken • In the early 1600’s small communities of free Blacks emerged on the Virginia and Maryland coasts. These communities show the equality between the races in a pre-racist world. By the end of the century these communities would be wiped out, and their inhabitants reduced to slavery on account of their race.

  11. Slavery legally recognized 1638 MD 1641 MA 1650 Conn 1652 SC 1661 VA 1664 NY & NJ 1700 PA & RI 1750 GA Miscegination outlawed 1664 MD 1691 VA 1705 MA 1715 NC 1717 SC 1721 DL 1725 PA Slavery and antimiscegination law

  12. Legalizing Slavery 1638 MD 1641 MA 1650 Conn 1652 SC 1661 VA 1664 NY & NJ 1700 PA & RI 1750 GA The legal recognition of slavery places the power of government in the service of masters

  13. Anti Miscegenation Laws 1664 MD 1691 VA 1705 MA 1715 NC 1717 SC 1721 DL 1725 PA Anti-miscegination laws use the power of the state to ensure that racial differences are maintained over time. These reinforce slavery and prevent the arising of Takaki’s “giddy multitude.”

  14. Early Abolition • 1688 Germantown Proclamation • 1770 Boston Quaker school • Germantown PA, 1759 • Religiously Based

  15. Slave Revolts • Resistance From the Start • 1687 VA, 1711 NC • 1739 Cato Conspiracy • 1740 MD

  16. Rights of Man • Men are given power of Reason, • Reason allows men to see that their interests are best served by creating government, • Government must recognize individual citizen as sovereign: • free and equal • Thomas Paine • James Otis • Abigail Adams • T. Jefferson

  17. 1st Abolition Society • Philadelphia in 4/14/1775 • Ben Franklin, chair • Quaker organization

  18. Africans “Manhood” • 1777 Prince Hall’s petition • 1780 Taxation and Representation • 1797 Petition Congress

  19. Civic Organizations • Free African Society in Phil. 1787. • Absalom Jones and Richard Allen • Boston, 1796 • Independent Masonic lodges. • Prince Hall, Boston 1787 • School and educational organizations • African Free School, NYC 11/1/1787

  20. Independent Churches • Discrimination in White churches • Baptist Church • Savannah, GA 1787 • AME • Founded: Richard Allen, 1794 • Independece, 4/9/1816 Richard Allen

  21. Intellectuals • Phyllis Wheatly • Benjamin Banneker • Jupiter Hammon

  22. Africans in Revolution • Crispus Attucks, 3/5/1770 • Boston massacre

  23. Africans Under Arms • Congress prohibits enlistment 10/13/1775 • fear of arming slaves and Africans • fear that British will also use African troops • Lord Dunmore (English) • 11/6/1775 Emancipates males who enlist • G. Washington • 12/31/75 orders recruitment • Treaty of Paris returns slaves

  24. Northern Abolition Year State 1777 VT 1780 PA 1783 Mass (gradual) 1783 NH 1784 CN (gradual) largest slave pop. 1784 Rhode Island 1799 NY (gradual) 1804 NJ

  25. Constitution Compromise • Trade continued until 1803 • 1808 Congress ends slave trade • Return of fugitive slaves by free state to slave states • The enumeration issue • census and taxation • census and representation • The “three fifths” compromise

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