Slavery in Colonial America: 1600 - 1860

System of Slavery
1. Maryland and Virginia
  1. It was widely used in
    1. Agriculture
      1. Raising tobacco and corn and other grains
    2. Non-agricultural Employment
      1. Shipbuilding, ironworking, and other early industries
  2. 1660's
    1. They created new laws deprived blacks, free and slaves, of many rights and privileges.
    2. They began to import thousands of slaves directly from Africa.
2. South Carolina
  1. Slaves developed a labor system known as the task system
    1. They were able to reconstitute African social patterns and maintain a separate Gullah dialect.
      1. They often passed their property down for generations.
3. Long Island - Southern Rode
  1. Slavery was concentrated in productive agriculture
    1. They were engaged in farming and stock raising for the West Indies.
  2. Slaves were household servants for the urban elite.
Revolutions
1. Demographic Revolution
  1. Slaves had been born in the New World
    1. They could sustain their population by natural reproduction.
2. Plantation Revolution
  1. Increased the size of plantations, more productive and efficient economic units.
  2. More supervision on their slaves.
3. Religious Revolution
  1. Planters resisted the idea of converting slaves to Christianity out of a fear that baptism would change a slave's legal status.
4. There was a revolution in values and sensibility.
  1. Religious and secular groups denounced slavery as a violation of natural rights.
5. Fourth Revolution
  1. 835,000 slaves were moved from Maryland, Virginia, and the Carolinas to Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas
1700
1. Most slaves were born in Africa, few were Christian, and very few slaves were engaged in raising cotton.
2. Despite the loss of slaves, slavery quickly recovered in the South.
3. Antislavery Movements
  1. The Free Soil Party
  2. The Liberty Party
  3. The Republican Party
1800
1. Slaves found in Christianity a faith that could give them hope in an oppressive world
  1. Slaves did not join their masters' churches.
2. A growing number of northerners were convinced that slavery posed an intolerable threat to free labor and civil liberties
3. Major conspiracies or revolts against slavery took place in Richmond, Virginia
1600
1. The royal governor of Virginia, promised freedom to all slaves belonging to rebels who would join "His Majesty's Troops."
  1. 800 Slaves joined to them
2. No church condemned slave ownership or slave trading

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