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HUMANITIES TEXAS TEACHER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP
AMERICAN SLAVERY HUMANITIES TEXAS TEACHER ENRICHMENT WORKSHOP DR. ALBERT S. BROUSSARD Texas A&M University
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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;
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Slave Family-Three Generations
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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
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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
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Phillis Wheatley
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
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LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS
SMALL FARMS V. PLANTATIONS COMMON FEATURES OF PLANTATION SLAVERY FIELD HANDS, HOUSE SERVANTS, DRIVERS TASK SYSTEM; GANG SYSTEM
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ICONIC PICTURE OF SLAVE WHIPPED
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LIFE IN THE SLAVE QUARTERS, cont.
OVERSEER KING COTTON SLAVE OCCUPATIONS FREDERICK DOUGLASS:”AN URBAN SLAVE WAS ALMOST A FREE MAN.”
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REGIONAL VARIATIONS IN SLAVERY
CHESAPEAKE COLONIES AND STATES TEXAS-183,000 (ROUNDED) SLAVES IN 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
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1857 Pottery by Dave (slave)
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SLAVE CULTURE Examples of slave cultural retentions:
Folk tales, riddles, proverbs Language-Gullah Religion-African American Christianity Slave songs-work songs, spirituals
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