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1 Slavery in America Sugar Plantation in the Caribbean

2 The Atlantic Slave Trade

3 Where in Africa? “Slave Coast”: Bight of Benin, Congo, Angola, Mozambique, Nigeria Over 800 languages spoken within Africa

4 African Slavery Slaves of rival tribes captured through war
Slavery was not always permanent nor hereditary Europeans controlled slave trade after 1600

5 The Carolinas Many residents came from Barbados
Charleston, South Carolina 1720 = 2/3 population of South Carolina were African or African American Rice and Indigo

6 Slavery & the Caribbean
Mid-1600s = 44,000 English lived in Caribbean Barbados & Jamaica = Key sugar producing islands Sugar in England used for food, medicine, & to display wealth Absentee owners 1713 = Barbados population ratio: 4 slaves to every 1 white settler

7 Southern Slavery 1690s = Rice cultivation began
Who brought the knowledge about rice? 1698 = 10,000 pounds of rice exported from South Carolina 1730 = 20 million pounds exported from South Carolina

8 Georgia Experiment to reform criminals
1732 = James Oglethorpe started colony = Banned slavery and rum

9 Forms of Slave Resistance
Violence Feigning Illness Breaking Tools Injuring Livestock Poisoning Master’s Food Burning Barns Running Away Syncretic Religious Beliefs Child Naming

10 Everyday Resistance Cone-shaped thatched roof huts & shotgun shacks
“Dressing your station”

11 Forms of Slavery 3 types of slaves: skilled workers, house workers, and field hands

12 Slavery in the North New York & New Jersey = slave populations of
15% - 30% Shipyards, small farms, and domestic slave labor Philadelphia, Boston, New York had substantial free black communities Northern & Southern slave codes

13 Slave Codes 1632 = Bermuda created first British colonial slave codes
1682 = Virginia developed first North American slave codes Slaves legally defined as “chattel” Slaves not allowed to trade, read, own weapons, meet in groups, leave plantations without a pass, or defend themselves

14 The Stono Rebellion 1739 = South Carolina slave rebellion led by former Angola soldiers 44 slaves and 21 whites killed Over 100 slaves marched south to Florida

15 From the PBS documentary Slavery & the Making of America

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