Expansion of Slavery

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Expansion of Slavery
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• AFRICA
• BEFORE Europeans
• War captives were treated as slaves.

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• HOWEVER, slaves were considered members of the
  society that enslaved themtreated as family
  members although still treated as property
  exploited for labor.

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• Most could marry their children were free.
• Sometimes sold as trade slaves to an African
  kingdom or Arabian traders.

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AFRICA AFTER EUROPEANS

• Drained of human resources
• (approximately 15 million slaves).

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• Family disruptionslavers preferred malesAfrican
  men began to have more wives.

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• Traditional goods were of lesser value than
  slaves.
• Spiritual disruption

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• Tribal warfarecaptives sold as slaves.
• Powerful centralized states overpowered
  egalitarian stateless societies.

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• Vindictive courtsminor crimes punished by
  enslavement.
• Marital inheritance rights denied.

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• Sold into slavery to pay debts.
• Sold by family members to buy food.

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Expansion of slavery in the colonies

• BEFORE 1660
• Slaves could receive freedom by completing
  contracts (indenturement)

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• OR
• by converting to Christianity.

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• AFTER 1660
• New laws lowered status of Africans--Reasons are
  not clear BUT

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• 1. Could not own guns or join militia.
• 2. Revoked rights to property.

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• 3. Christian conversion did not guarantee
  freedom.
• 4. Barred from buying white servants labor
  contracts.

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• 5. Color of skin became mark of inferior legal
  social status.

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• 1692Law prohibited sexual intercourse between
  whites blacks.

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• SERVITUDE BECAME PERMANENT

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• After Bacons Rebellion more slaves were being
  shipped in because they had become cheaper than
  white servants.

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• ALSO, slaves not as rebellious as servants and
  could not fade into the population.

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• By 17701/3rd of the southern population were
  African slaves (500,000).