2. Welcome Justice Warriors!!!! Thursday 8/24
1. If you have the homework (notes and summary) you can turn it in to the basket by the globe. Remember, it’s the notes, summary, and citation from pages
2. Please take out Notebook and go to assignment 4: The Color Line
Remember:
Earn the Brownie points!

3. The Color Line
Where did the idea come from to separate the races? Why did the colonies do this?

4. The American Colonies: No Color Line Yet (Early 1600’s)
Colonists -White Europeans (wealthy and poor) Native Americans -Native to the Land Indentured Servants -White and Black, worked to pay off their debt to get over to the new world

5. Picture of a Certificate of Indenture
Many of the first blacks in America weren’t slaves, but indentured servants. Indentured servitude was a much different system than slavery. People in Europe who wanted to come to the New World but could not afford passage would “indenture” themselves to another person (usually for a period of five to seven years) who would then pay for their passage to America.
While under indenture, servants were required to work for their benefactor, and could be prosecuted if they attempted to escape. (Generally, if they were caught their indenture would be extended.) However, white indentured servants could look forward to certain freedom.
Early on in colonial times, slaves were less desirable than indentured servants. One of the main reasons was cost. A slave frequently cost five to six times more than an indentured servant. In addition, Africans brought to the New World did not understand the language or culture of their new home, while indentured servants usually did.
A certificate of indenture

6. African Slavery Begins
First African slaves in America brought to Jamestown, Virginia, in 1619
Slavery institutionalized in many states by 1640
Slaves became “chattel property”
Most records point to the first African slaves arriving in Jamestown in A Dutch ship had taken about 20 captured Africans from a Spanish ship bound for Mexico; when the Dutch landed in Virginia, they traded the Africans for supplies and repairs to their ship. The first blacks brought to the New World were not slaves in the strict sense of the word; instead, they came here as servants. However, by 1640—within a generation of the first blacks arriving in the colonies—many states had made slavery a legal institution. Slaves had became “chattel property,” and could be treated, bought, or sold at the whim of their masters.
African slaves landing at Jamestown, 1619

7. White/Black Relationships
Blacks and whites worked and “fraternized” together.
Intermarriage happened, not common
White servants and Black slaves “remarkably unconcerned about the visible physical differences.”
Look on page 31!

8. This is you: The Virginia House of Burgesses
This is you: The Virginia House of Burgesses. Can you keep whites, blacks, Native Americans from getting together?
Roles:
Chief Burgess (spokesperson—speaks to the class)
Secretary of Burgesses (recorder-writes stuff down)
Wealthy Slaveowner/Planter (Group Leader-organizer)
Businessperson (time is valuable—timekeeper—keeps time)
Write down your answers to #s 1,2,3, and 4 on a separate paper. Be creative!

9. Share Out!