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Virginia Law of 1662- |
A child whose parents were free and a slave, the status of the offspring followed that of the mother |
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Virginia Law 1667- |
Religious conversion does not release a slave from bondage |
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Virginia Law 1705- |
Slaves are property Subject to will of masters Bought, sold, leased, and passed down Blacks had separate courts Could not own guns illegal to hit a white man could not employ whites show pass on demand while off plantation |
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How many Slaves brought to the new world between 1492 and 1820? |
7.7 million |
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What % arrived between 1700 and 1800? |
50% or 1/2 |
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Traders had a demand for what? |
Sugar, coffee, rice, tobacco, indigo |
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How many slaves were in North America by 1700? |
20,000 |
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How many slaves were in North America by 1750? |
250,000 |
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The Slave triangle includes? |
Europe, Africa, Americas |
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The Middle Passage is what? |
The triangular oceanic route travelled by slaves |
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How many usually died? |
1 out of 5 |
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What diseases occurred on the middle passage? |
Small pox, measles, dysentary |
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Crisis of What??? |
Crisis of Dislocation |
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Type of work slaves did in Maryland and Virginia? |
Tobacco |
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Specialized work they did in Virginia and Maryland? |
mid-wives, making nails, cabinets, riding gear,carpenters, tanners, weavers, curriers, and preserving food |
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What type of work did thy do in the Carolinas? |
Rice Plantations |
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What disease was common on rice plantations? |
Malaria |
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What is the task system? |
Once work was completed, slaves were able to use remaining time to grow gardens, etc... |
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What were slaves living arrangements like? |
Lived in clusters of houses set aside the masters house Built African style house |
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What was Slaves families like? |
relatives sold extended kinship networks important |
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Slaves often spoke what dialect? |
Gullah, a combination of english and several african languages African marriage, coming of age, and funerary customs |
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Slave marriages??? |
owners encouraged marriages and could not stop informal marriages and baptisms undermining family could produce less slaves |
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Slave Religion? |
Preserved basic African religious ways Christianity and traditional African religion
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Did slave owners push Christianity? |
Some did and some prohibited it |
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Common Slave punishments included? |
Branding, castration, family splitting, public whippings, shameful disfigurement were extensions of european values, reinforced by racial "inferiority" |
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Overall how many slaves were brought to United States? |
400,000-600,000 slaves |
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By 1770 about 2.3 million people lived in the colonies, what percent were slaves ? |
About 20% |
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Who is Olaudah Equiano? |
Olaudah Equiano was a slave who was born in Africa and transported to america as a slave. He worked as a slave and eventually purchased his freedom and wrote a book about being slave and slavery and preached against it. His book is called "The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equino" |
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By 1750 Jamaica had how many Plantations and Slaves? |
700 Plantations and 100,000 Slaves |
