HUMANITIES TEXAS TEACHER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP AMERICAN SLAVERY HUMANITIES TEXAS TEACHER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP DR. ALBERT S. BROUSSARD Texas A&M University
STAAR GRADE 8, SOCIAL STUDIES ASSESSMENT HISTORY. (7B) COMPARE THE EFFECTS OF POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL FACTORS ON SLAVES AND FREE BLACKS; (7C) ANALYZE THE IMPACT OF SLAVERY ON DIFFERENT SECTIONS OF THE UNITED STATES;
Slave Family-Three Generations
SLAVERY IN WORLD HISTORY THE INSTITUTION OF SLAVERY IS AS OLD AS HUMAN CIVILIZATION ABOUT 10.7 MILLION AFRICANS CAME TO THE NEW WORLD (12.5 million removed from Africa) AFRICAN SLAVES REPRESENTED THE LARGEST GROUP OF IMMIGRANTS THAT CROSSSED THE ATLANTIC PRIOR TO 1820 FREE LABOR, NOT SLAVERY WAS THE ABBERATION
Slavery as a System of Labor SLAVERY WAS AN ECONOMIC SYSTEM, A SYSTEM OF FORCED LABOR, A SYSTEM OF SOCIAL CONTROL BLACK LABOR WAS HIGHLY VALUED HUMAN CHATTEL SLAVE CODES REGULATED SLAVERY; ALSO CALLED NEGRO LAWS
Phillis Wheatley
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS SMALL FARMS V. PLANTATIONS COMMON FEATURES OF PLANTATION SLAVERY FIELD HANDS, HOUSE SERVANTS, DRIVERS TASK SYSTEM; GANG SYSTEM
ICONIC PICTURE OF SLAVE WHIPPED
LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS, cont. OVERSEER KING COTTON SLAVE OCCUPATIONS FREDERICK DOUGLASS:”AN URBAN SLAVE WAS ALMOST A FREE MAN.”
REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN SLAVERY CHESAPEAKE COLONIES AND STATES TEXAS-183,000 (ROUNDED) SLAVES IN 1860- about one-third of Texas’ population Texas discouraged a sizable free black pop. Majority of Texas slaves picked cotton Others labored as domestics, cooks, artisans
1857 Pottery by Dave (slave)
SLAVE CULTURE Examples of slave cultural retentions: Folk tales, riddles, proverbs Language-Gullah Religion-African American Christianity Slave songs-work songs, spirituals