Origins of Slavery in Colonial Virginia

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Origins of Slavery in Colonial Virginia
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SLAVERY IN THE NEW WORLD
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Slavery in the New World

• Institution of slavery Introduced First in South
  America
• Africans Critical Immigrant Group
• Numbers Transported, 1500-1900
• Destinations

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THE ENSLAVEMENT OF AFRICANS
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Slave Importations, 1451-1810
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Total 7,606,000
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THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
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THE SLAVE AUCTION
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IMPACT OF SLAVES ON EUROPEANS

• Labor and Skills
• African Culture
• Legacy of Racism

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INDENTURED SERVANTS AS A SOURCE OF LABOR IN
VIRGINIA

• Contract
• Geographic Destinations
• Similarities Between Indentured Servants and
  Slaves
• Occupied Intermediate Position Between Slave and
  Free Labor
• Two Contrasts with Slaves Length of
  Service Importance of Race

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Advertisement for Indentured Servant
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Demography and the Price of Labor

• Economic Incentives for Using Indentured Servants
• Discovery of Labor Intensive Cash Crop
• Cost of Slave Versus Indentured Servant
• Short Life Expectancy in Virginia

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The Cycle of Social Mobility to 1660

• From Indentured Servant, to Free Labor and then
  to Landowner

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Social Mobility

• Landowner
• Freedmen
• Indentured Servants

Arrival from England
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The Collapse of Social Mobility after 1660

• Causes
• Population Growth
• Curbs of Tobacco
• Exports
• Soaring Land
• Values

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Nathanial Bacon

• The Ringleader of Discontent

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Virginia Turned Upside Down

• The Violence of the
• Rebellion

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Consequences Bacons Rebellion
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Impoverished Freedmen and Bacons Rebellion, 1676

• Freedmen Now Seen as a Threat
• to the Social Order

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The Impact of the Rebellion

• Portended Class War the Landed Versus the
  Landless

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THE SHIFT TO SLAVERY IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
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Slaves versus Indentured Servants

• Relative numbers of each, 1671

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Why the Landed Elite Now Opted for Slaves over
Indenture Servants

• Economic Advantages
• Social Advantages of Slaves
• Demography, Cost and Supply