Slavery in the Colonies (1619-1776) and in the United States•New England •Urban slavery •Existed in port cities, life much better than most slaves, given weekly wage, af-ter work is finished they go home •Manumissions-someone can pay to free them or they can save enough money to free themselves •Family slavery-family that owns one slave, replaces a family members duties. Slave becomes a part of the family, talks with fam eats with fam. Works side by side with the family •Negatives-rape, working at all times, no other slaves to talk to•Southern Slavery•Age of Flexibility (1619-1680)•Reasons why age stoped•1.Indentured servants stopped coming to the Americas, because things in Eng-land get better and that the new world sucks. Spotlight now on slaves•2.Tobacco becomes a boom crop. And people start making lots of money and resources to buy more and more slave•3.South Carolina becomes a colony •South Carolina •Slave Majority-predominant black slave population•Slave Codes-system of rules that define slaves and what they can and cant do. Slaves can not hold weapons•Status of the mother-children take status of the mother •Chattel Slavery•Miscegenation-white and black people cannot have sex with each other •American Slavery •After the revolutionary War (ON TEST, the reasons why slavery strengthen after revolutionary war)•More rules about slavery than before...why?•Economics •North people depend on industry, in south economy based on agriculture and there fore based on slavery •Land Expansion-able to move westward. Find land great for growing cotton. Plantation=slaves. Land they expand to will bring more slaves to the area. •Proclamation line-(on test) england said to colonials do not pass this line. Cannot expand westward•Property Rights - slaves property. Government cant take property. •Scientific Racsim•Carl Linnaeus•Hatian Revolution (1791-1804)•Most successful slave rebellion•Toussaint L’Ouverture- slave, horse trainer, leads the rebellion. He is going to name himself governor for life of haiti after he kicks out all whites. Name means the awakening of all saints. Scares americans because they have fear of it hap-pening there. •Abolition in the North- how to tackle outlawing slavery, by individual states•Gradual Emancipation-state by state, only keep slaves up until a certain day gives people a chance to sell the slaves before time is up •Immediate Emancipation-make a law then as soon as law goes through there are no more slaves allowed. Only one state does this..Massachusetts. Citizens say no and slavery is terrible and over. •End of Atlantic Slave Trade (1808)•Participation in slave trade a bad thing•Self-perpetuating slave population-no longer need to bring africans into america because slaves are reproducing and making a slave trade large enough in america•Interstate slave trade •“sold down the river”•Sold down south from the upper south, slavery in down south is worse than up-per south slavery. •Slave Families •Slave Brokers-buy and sell slaves because opportunity to make a lot of money. Buy and sell from one state to another. Slaves sold to broker are the ones that are not really desirable. •Scarcity•Resistance-when they runaway most will run back to plantation where they were taken from because that is where there familys are. •Antebellum Slavery (1800-1865)•The “peculiar Institution”•its weird that a slave is both an animal and a child at the same time•Said civil war was fought over slavery..actually fought over states rights to own slaves•Task Slavery-you have to do the tasks before you can be done with the day, slaveshave time to their selves to do things like garden. They can make money off of their garden by selling their garden. Which starts a slave economy. •Gang slavery-slaves divided up on plantation based on age and gender, told to do work in groups, work until you are told to stop, no finish line or end to the task. •Plantation Slavery•25 percent of all southerns owned slaves, 75 percent obvs didnt own. Of the people who owned slaves only 25 percent of them owned more than 5 slaves. Common experience for a slave-to work on a plantation Common experience for southerners is to not own slaves•Slave quarters•“the little spots alloed them”•Not well kept •Dirt floors •A lot of people in a small space •Hierarchy of Management •Planter-person who owns and lives on plantation •(abstentee planter)-person who owns plantation but does not live on plantation •Overseer-manage the slaves on a day to day basis, generally a guy who is middle class white, the face of the planter, most hated person by the slaves. Overseer works no more than 2 years. Overseer does the correction •Driver-overseer of the overseer. Black person who is a slave already. Driver will besomeone that the planter already has relationship with and will trust. Individual is not apart of the slave family. Why choose to be a driver when all other slaves goingto hate him?...better conditions •Work Schedule- 3 days off a year. Whit Sunday, Christmas and Easter. Most work until night time. •Crops:•Sugar-difficult to cultivate, cared for intensively •Cotton-heavy•Tobacco-less intensive •Indigo-where we get blue ink, turning into dye is long smelly process•Rice-huge labor intensive season is all year
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