1. Chapter 3 Slavery and Empire

2. Beginnings of African Slavery
Portuguese sugar cane plantations
Madeira
Hispaniola
Brazil

3. West Africans
Mali
Songhai

4. Atlantic Slave Trade 10-11 million slaves over 400 years
Only 5% to British NA
Role of New England
Role of Africans

5. Triangular Trade

6. Middle Passage Tight Packers 1/6 mortality Revolts Auctions/scrambles
Economic shifts lead to conquest

8. Development of NA Slave Societies
Virginia Slave Code 1705
Servants vs. slaves
Task system
Indigo, tobacco
Slavery in the North
Early calls for abolition

12. Becoming African American
Daily lives of slaves
Family structures
Mutual acculturation
resistance

14. Mercantilism Political control of the economy Navigation Acts
Importance of slavery to the economy

15. Disparity of Wealth Plantation system leads to great wealth
Inherited wealth
“First Families” of Virginia
The Planter Elite

16. Legal Distinctions
Slaves
Free blacks
Mulattoes
White skin privilege

17. Thomas Jefferson
“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, that his justice can not sleep forever.”

18. Early calls for abolition