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Pgs 72-80 Reading Quiz

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

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Pgs 72-80 Reading Quiz

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  1. 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!!!

  2. Early Slavery

  3. 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

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. European Views

  7. Triangle Trade

  8. The Middle Passage

  9. Cargo Advertisement

  10. 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

  11. 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.

  12. 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

  13. 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

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Runaway Slave Ads

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