Chapter 3 Slavery and Empire
Beginnings of African Slavery Portuguese sugar cane plantations Madeira Hispaniola Brazil
West Africans Mali Songhai
Atlantic Slave Trade 10-11 million slaves over 400 years Only 5% to British NA Role of New England Role of Africans
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage Tight Packers 1/6 mortality Revolts Auctions/scrambles Economic shifts lead to conquest
Development of NA Slave Societies Virginia Slave Code 1705 Servants vs. slaves Task system Indigo, tobacco Slavery in the North Early calls for abolition
Becoming African American Daily lives of slaves Family structures Mutual acculturation resistance
Mercantilism Political control of the economy Navigation Acts Importance of slavery to the economy
Disparity of Wealth Plantation system leads to great wealth Inherited wealth “First Families” of Virginia The Planter Elite
Legal Distinctions Slaves Free blacks Mulattoes White skin privilege
Thomas Jefferson “I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice can not sleep forever.”
Early calls for abolition