HST 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Slave Codes, Interracial Marriage, Metacomet
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Daily life for colonial people: biggest need was labor, very different social hierarchy, indentured servants, gender roles. 1619: house of burgess was formed (predecessor to democracy) First shipment of atlantic creoles arrive in jamestown, virginia: not directly from africa because they were already enslaved by europeans in the caribbean, north america only received about 5-7% of the slaves from the atlantic slave trade. Initially the preferred types of labor were different: wanted to enslave natives because they were already there and colonists didn"t want to deal, indentured servants with the transatlantic slave trade across the sea. Popular because many englishmen were poor and this was their only choice to make it to. Required little labor compared to plantations: plantations: Tobacco: originally employed indentured servants but slave labor became more preferable. Time consuming (14 month growth cycle: hard work, fragile, must be harvested, dried, separated, packed, and shipped, only profitable in large quantities.