Slavery
Origins of Human Ownership Indentured Servitude Origins of Human Ownership
Jamestown Also, New England Tobacco boom, 1617 – 1630 Cost vs. Benefit Planters Servants Abuse & Exploitation Social mobility
Decline Tobacco Bust, 1630 – 1660 Competition Delaware Valley British military
Rise of Slavery
West Indies Sugar Triangle Trade English Economy Natural Rate of Increase
Triangle Trade
South Carolina Rice Similar to West Indies Demographics Malaria 80% slave 20% white Malaria Sickle-cell anemia Natural Rate of Increase
Chesapeake 1740 Tobacco Treatment of slaves Natural Rate of Increase Africans: 40% of the population Tobacco Treatment of slaves Natural Rate of Increase Why the variation?
New England & Mid Atlantic Far less New York City Puritanical views Quaker views
Middle Passage Death rate: 14% Dysentery Dehydration Uprisings & Revolts 1 in 10 Middle Passage Film http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgTGiWeRCWc
West Indies & S. Carolina Treatment West Indies & S. Carolina Chesapeake Intensive labor crops Harsh treatment Nat’l Rate of Increase Constant Influx Less Intensive crops Not as harsh Nat’l Rate of Increase Birth rate: 1750
Social Effects
Early Social Norms Christian superiority to Paganism Black Freedom (Chesapeake) Interracial marriage Black ownership of slaves/servants
Race 1705, Whipping white servants prohibited Not extended to black servants White ex-servants: 50 acres Prohibition of English and African Sexual Intercourse Outlawed: Blacks owning guns Blacks owning English servants
Tyranny T. Jefferson George Mason Each generation “nursed, educated and daily exercised in tyranny. [B]etween master and slave is a perpetual exercise of… despotism on the one part and degrading submission on the other.” George Mason “Every master is born a petty tyrant.”
Slave Response Fled to frontier Bartering w/ masters Slowdowns Revolts & Uprisings Kill masters/overseers
Stono Rebellion Largest slave uprising South Carolina, 1739 Stono River War of Jenkins’ Ear Spanish promises to slaves White militia victory
The Creation of a Southern Slave SocietyA Enslaved Blacks & Wealthy Whites
Plantations as Slave Communities
Ethnic Diversity
Language Unifying factor English French Gullah Creole
Kinship & Marriage Unifying factor Stable families Generational continuity In which colonies would this happen? In which would this not happen?
Wealthy Landowing Elites White Gentry Wealthy Landowing Elites
Elites Very few families Yeomen farmers as collaborators Carter Lee Randolph Robinson Yeomen farmers as collaborators Aristocratic control
Culture The English Aristocratic Model Behavior Architecture Education Gentile Women