Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Chapter 2 Drawing the Color Line
- Reasons for Using Slaves
- White slaves were much less
common than black slaves.
- There was
quite a bit of
money in
farming
tobacco.
- Natives couldn't be
enslaved, an alternative
was needed.
- Natives usually died from
sickness and exhaustion
while working.
- Colonists didn't have
enough manpower on their own.
- Facets of African Culture
- Poor climate habitability meant
civilizations could rarely afford
gigantic empires.
- Feudalistic,
similar to
European cultures.
- Largest source of
slaves in history
- Warlords and kings sold their
own subjects to black slave
traders.
- African slave labor was
less intensive than
European slave labor.
- Treatment of Black Slaves
- Black slaves were treated
as property. Expensive
property.
- Compared to white
slaves, black slaves were
often abused.
- Slaves were
given little to no
pay or leisure
time.
- Slaves
were often
worked to
death.
- Slaves were measured in how
hard they worked, with prices
adjusted accordingly.
- Products of America
- Corn
- Valuable spices
- Tobacco
- Land
- Personal/religious freedom
- Reaction to the state of black slaves
- Racemixing was punished by flogging.
- Indifference on their plight from religious institutions.
- Slave owners either treated their slaves well but as lessers, or as
property to be punished as the owners saw fit.
- No outrage was found on most people's part,
since the slaves were
acquired "legally"
- In times of
strife,
racial
tensions
lessened.