Slavery in the American Colonies

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Slavery in the American Colonies
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Headright System and Indentured Servitude

• What was it?
• Why was it needed?
• How did it work?
• What was it like to be an indentured servant?
• Who actually benefited?

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The Introduction of African Slavery

• Why did planters begin to rely on African
  slavery?
• How planters justified slavery
• Slavery in the South
• Slavery in the North

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Triangular Trade

• What was it?
• How did it work?

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Legal/Government Support of Slavery

• 1670 Law
• By 1700 there were 25,000 slaves in the American
  colonies and by 1750 there were 100,000 slaves in
  Virginia, far outnumbering indentured servants.
• In some southern areas, slaves were beginning to
  outnumber whites.

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The End
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Plantation Culture

• Size of plantations
• Over ___ of all blacks lived on plantations of at
  least __ slaves over half lived in communities
  of __ slaves or more
• Family relationships
• ___________________
• ___________________
• Creation of kinship networks and surrogate
  "relatives" unrelated to families

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Plantation Culture

• Language development--Gullah (hybrid of English
  and African languages)
• __________________________________________
• Work patterns
• __________________________________________
• __________________________________________
• On larger plantations slaves learned trades and
  crafts--blacksmithing, carpentry, shoemaking,
  midwifery
• Economically, plantations were often efficient
  and productive. Socially they achieved stability
  at the cost of human freedom and dignity