HIST-H 105 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mortality Rate
HIST- H 105
History Lecture
September 6, 2018
Slavery in the Americas
1. Captivity in Native America
a. Captive experiences → death, slavery, or adoption
b. Enslaved status ranged from temporary to permanent
c. Opposite of slavery → Kinship
d. Slavery not race-based → enslaved included people of Native, European, and
African descent
e. Slavery among Native peoples not static, change over time
i. Ex. Chickasaw slave trade in the Carolinas → 1670-1720
ii. Supplied Native slaves to English planters in exchange for English
manufactured goods
2. Slavery in the British West Indies
a. Barbados & Jamaica
b. By 1640s sugar plantation economy
i. Brutal working and living conditions
ii. Mortality rate was high → malnourished
c. By 1660 black majorities
d. English colonists: constant fear of slave rebellion
e. Race key social distinction
3. From Indentured Servants to Race-Based Slavery in the Chesapeake
a. Most indentured servants were illiterate
b. Many indentured servants were abused → not fed, not clothed, labor intensive
work
c. Masters have sold their servants like slaves
i. Not apart of the indentured servants contract
d. Slaves could end up becoming free
i. Given last name, land, & a servant
e. The state of indentured servants & black people is ambiguous
i. They were not called slaves until the 1650s
f. Why did race- based slavery become the dominant labor system in the
Chesapeake bay by 1700?
i. Economic history
ii. Death rate declined
g. Political history → Bacon’s Rebellion (1676)
i. Virginia in 1676
1. Declining prospects for free indentured servants
2. “Shortage” of land
3. Governor Berkeley refused to authorize war
Document Summary
September 6, 2018: captivity in native america. Slavery in the americas: captive experiences death, slavery, or adoption, enslaved status ranged from temporary to permanent, opposite of slavery kinship, slavery not race-based enslaved included people of native, european, and. African descent: slavery among native peoples not static, change over time i. ii. Chickasaw slave trade in the carolinas 1670-1720. Supplied native slaves to english planters in exchange for english manufactured goods: slavery in the british west indies, barbados & jamaica, by 1640s sugar plantation economy. Not apart of the indentured servants contract: slaves could end up becoming free i. Given last name, land, & a servant: the state of indentured servants & black people is ambiguous i. They were not called slaves until the 1650s: why did race- based slavery become the dominant labor system in the. Death rate declined: political history bacon"s rebellion (1676) i. Virginia in 1676: declining prospects for free indentured servants.
