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Slavery in the States. Northern States. Worked as Artisans Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tanners House servants Shipping yard Gave wages to owners Some could buy freedom. Northern States . States to Abolish Slavery 1775 Pennsylvania 1777 Vermont 1783 Massachusetts
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Northern States • Worked as • Artisans • Blacksmiths, carpenters, shoemakers, tanners • House servants • Shipping yard • Gave wages to owners • Some could buy freedom
Northern States States to Abolish Slavery • 1775 Pennsylvania • 1777 Vermont • 1783 Massachusetts • 1783 New Hampshire (gradual) • 1784 Connecticut (gradual) • 1799 New York (gradual) • 1804 New Jersey (gradual)
Middle States • First slaves brought to Jamestown, VA • 1619 • Worked more as indentured servants • Both free and enslaved blacks • Bacon’s Rebellion • Caused harsher slave laws
Middle States • 1667 Virginia Slave law • All children born to a slave mother they are a slave • 1669 Virginia Slave law • Masters can use any violent mean towards a slave who resists • Tobacco • Task labor
Southern States • Conditions were harshest in the South • Gang labor • Rice and Indigo were grown in the South • Cotton became King when the cotton gin was invented • Almost every Southern state’s economy was based on slave labor
http://www.history.com/videos/origins-of-slavery • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0cqvR9fXG4