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Slavery in the Colonies

Slavery in the Americas became PERMANENT by the mid‐1600s.

Were slaves in the colonies

slaves for life?

* The Plantation System: * profits from tobacco and rice * southern economy dependent on slavery

Why slavery in the Americas?

* There has been slavery since ancient times, and it was not always for life:

* example: in many early Christian societies, slaves

were freed of they became Christians

* example: in many African societies, people

captured in war were often enslaved for only a few years

Before slavery in Americas, was it always for life?

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Attempts to Stop Slavery

*1652: Rhode Island

*Passed the first anti‐slavery law *Law did not last, because R.I. made profits off

• f the slave trade

*Georgia

*Had a ban on slavery until the 1750s *Ban lifted, and slavery was legal in all colonies *Slavery became linked to African‐American decent *Slavery is now linked to RACISM *Colonists felt superior to Africans *Colonists thought they were "helping" Africans by introducing them to European ways and Christianity

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Middle Passage

* traded for guns and other goods before being loaded onto the ships * to increase profits, many captains crammed as many captives on as possible * 15%‐20% died or committed suicide during the Middle Passage

The Ugly Facts

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Auction Blocks

* healthy men, women, and children put on the auction block

• nce they reached the Americas

* family members often separated * majority ended up on plantations

in the Spanish colonies, Brazil, or

Caribbean

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Who was involved?

*British

*Dutch *French

*Spanish

*Portuguese

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Who was first to bring Africans to the Americas as a source of slave labor?

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The Atlantic Slave Trade

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Triangular Trade

Do you remember the Navigation

Acts? Do you think the colonists

followed them? Why or why not?

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Resistance to Slavery

strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves

Slave Codes

* could not meet in large numbers * could not own weapons * could not leave plantation without permission * could not learn to read or write

* Masters who killed slaves could not be tried for

murder

Life under the codes...

* laws attempted to stop revolts * revolts flared up into slavery itself ended in 1865

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SLAVE TRADERS

* traders set up posts along the West Africa coast * made raids into the interior * bound at leg and neck * captives marched as far as 300 miles * half of captives died along the way HORRIBLE FACTS