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Slavery in Colonial America: 1600 - 1860
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Mind Map on Slavery in Colonial America: 1600 - 1860, created by LAURA ALEJANDRA GIRALDO CASTILLO on 13/09/2016.
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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
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