HIST 258 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Indentured Servant, Starving Time, Debt Bondage
1 Feb 2018
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From indentured servitude to racial slavery: the complexities of slavery on the. Colonial frontier: continuing our discussion of the move towards black racial slavery, early republic eras (post 1774, slavery is codified in racial terms across the board, myne owne ground: race and freedom on virginia"s eastern shore 1640- Attack 1622: established new general assembly, rapid economic expansion, growth of plantations not owned by government, virginia colony goes bankrupt. Renting land that you farm: 1619-1624 intermediate forms of bonded servitude. People here are among the most destitute in britain: convicts, vagrant children, etc, maids for wives. Importation of destitute, white women to set up colonies: pre-1624, mostly tenant farmers and labourers, shift to indentured servitude, begins with assigning workers to third party. If you"re a negro, you"re a slave even if baptized: moves closer to hereditary bondage of black people.
