1. And labor systems in the New World
THE SLAVE TRADE
And labor systems in the New World

2. WARM UP
When you think of the word ‘slavery,’ what comes to mind? Bullet point some terms/words.

3. BEFORE WE GO ON…
Slavery is bad. All of slavery is bad. No one should ever be a slave. It’s inhumane and terrible.
I am not saying that slavery is good. However, certain forms of slavery are better than other forms of slavery.
The Americas had the worst slavery.

4. CHATTEL SLAVERY (the worst)
Chattel = personal property
Think “cattle”
Taking one group of people from their homeland to another place
TERRIBLE AND AWFUL
Zero rights, lots of abuse
Usually ‘others’ – different races or religions
Conditions on the middle passage: male slaves were chained together, lots of death, disease,
Separating families
people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities

5. Also actual chattel.

6. CHATTEL SLAVERY (the worst)
Atlantic Slave Trade
Triangular trade
Middle Passage
Plantations
USA: Tobacco and cotton
Brazil: Sugar
Conditions on the middle passage: male slaves were chained together, lots of death, disease,
Separating families
people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities

8. TAX-FARMING (not as bad as Chattel)
EXAMPLES
DEFINTIONS
Encomienda
Indentured servants
Feudal Britain/Europe
Japanese shogunate
Ottoman Empire
Russia under Peter the Great
Work on the land
Social hierarchy – lords, serfs
Can gain freedom in some instances
Conditions on the middle passage: male slaves were chained together, lots of death, disease,
Separating families
people are treated as the chattel (personal property) of the owner and are bought and sold as if they were commodities

9. HUMAN BEING (kind of? Most enlightened form of slavery)
EXAMPLES
DEFINTION
Greece
Rome
No political power
Work for pay, but cannot leave land/master
Relationships with non-slaves
Able to own property, have family
Literate
Possibility of social mobility
Think domestic servants
Same race usually, or conquered peoples, but

10. COMPARE/CONTRAST
Slavery in the Roman Empire versus slavery in the Americas

11. MODERN SLAVERY?

12. MODERN SLAVERY? Sex trafficking Child labor Day laborers (?)
What else…

13. CCOT
Analyze continuities and changes in labor systems in ONE of the following regions within the time period 1450 to 1900.
Latin America and the Caribbean
North America
…what happened in 1863?