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Slavery in
Colonial
America:
1600 - 1860
- System of Slavery
- Maryland and Virginia
- It was widely used in
- Agriculture
- Raising tobacco and
corn and other grains
- Non-agricultural
Employment
- Shipbuilding, ironworking,
and other early industries
- 1660's
- They created new laws deprived
blacks, free and slaves, of many
rights and privileges.
- They began to import thousands
of slaves directly from Africa.
- South Carolina
- Slaves developed a
labor system known as
the task system
- They were able to reconstitute
African social patterns and
maintain a separate Gullah
dialect.
- They often passed
their property down
for generations.
- Long Island -
Southern Rode
- Slavery was concentrated
in productive agriculture
- They were engaged in
farming and stock raising
for the West Indies.
- Slaves were household
servants for the urban
elite.
- Revolutions
- Demographic
Revolution
- Slaves had been born
in the New World
- They could sustain their population
by natural reproduction.
- Plantation
Revolution
- Increased the size of
plantations, more productive
and efficient economic units.
- More supervision on their slaves.
- Religious
Revolution
- Planters resisted the idea of converting
slaves to Christianity out of a fear that
baptism would change a slave's legal status.
- There was a revolution in values and sensibility.
- Religious and secular groups denounced
slavery as a violation of natural rights.
- Fourth
Revolution
- 835,000 slaves were moved from Maryland,
Virginia, and the Carolinas to Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
- 1700
- Most slaves were born in Africa, few were Christian,
and very few slaves were engaged in raising cotton.
- Despite the loss of slaves, slavery
quickly recovered in the South.
- Antislavery Movements
- The Free Soil Party
- The Liberty Party
- The Republican Party
- 1800
- Slaves found in Christianity
a faith that could give them
hope in an oppressive world
- Slaves did not join their masters' churches.
- A growing number of northerners were convinced
that slavery posed an intolerable threat to free
labor and civil liberties
- Major conspiracies or revolts against
slavery took place in Richmond, Virginia
- 1600
- The royal governor of Virginia, promised freedom to all slaves
belonging to rebels who would join "His Majesty's Troops."
- 800 Slaves joined to them
- No church condemned slave
ownership or slave trading