HISTORY 100AC Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: East India Company, Royal Charter, Solomon Northup
13 Feb 2018
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1/22/18: native americans went from independence to dependence on the market. 1491 5 million native americans living north of mexico. 1800 600,000 native americans, 5 million euro-americans. Indentured servants dominated the early labor force in virginia. If you broke a certain rule/law, years would be added to your contract: around 1700, race-based slavery began to replace indentured servitude, virginia begins planting tobacco in 1619. 1808 importation of slaves no longer legal in the us. 1860 3. 4 million slaves worth /3 million. 1619 first slaves arrive in american colonies aboard a dutch trading ship. 1860 only 2. 7% of slaveholders owned 50 slaves. Rural system that remained bound to rhythms of nature and tradition ideas of work, time, and leisure : solomon northup, slaves scared of the amount of cotton they would bring in b/c they could get punished if not enough.
