01:510:261 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Stono Rebellion, Social Stratification, Mount Meager
13 May 2018
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Chapter 04 - Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire
to 1763
1. Slavery in eighteenth-century colonial America
1. Slavery and the British empire
1. British control of slave trade
2. Triangular trading routes
3. Slaveowning as an element of "freedom"
2. Africa and the slave trade
1. Participation of African rulers
2. Introduction of European goods
3. Consequences for West African societies
1. Opportunities for rulers, merchants
2. Impact of imported textiles on craft production
3. Impact of imported guns on slave trade, relations
among kingdoms
4. Depletion of African population
3. Middle passage
4. Regional patterns of slavery
1. In the Tobacco Kingdom (Virginia, Maryland)
1. Breadth and importance of slavery
2. Forms of slave labor
3. Social hierarchy of slave society
2. In the Rice Kingdom (South Carolina, Georgia)
1. Breadth and importance of slavery
2. Forms of slave labor
3. Social hierarchy of slave society
3. In the northern colonies
1. Breadth and importance of slavery
2. Forms of slave labor
5. Slave culture and resistance
1. The making of an African-American people
2. Regional patterns of African-American culture
1. In the Chesapeake
2. In South Carolina and Georgia
1. On the rice plantations
2. In the port towns
3. In the northern colonies
3. Resistance to slavery
1. Running away
2. Collective rebellion
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1. New York City uprising of 1712
2. Uprisings around Caribbean and Gulf coast of
1730s and '40s
3. Stono rebellion of 1739
4. New York City plot of 1741
2. Eighteenth-century British patriotism
1. Shared embrace of by Britons and colonists
2. Sources
1. Common culture and institutions
2. Military power
3. Expanding commercial economy
4. Concept of British liberty
3. Eighteenth-century British liberty
1. Elements of
1. "Rights of Englishmen"
2. "Balanced Constitution"
3. Protestantism
4. As distinctively British
2. Language of
1. Expanding currency in Britain and colonial America
2. From class-based privilege to general rights
3. As emerging battle cry for the rebellious
3. Republican liberty ("republicanism")
1. Principles
1. Supreme value of public service
2. Property as key to independence and public virtue
2. Appeal to landed elites of Britain and America
4. Liberal freedom ("liberalism")
1. Principles (derived from John Locke's "social contract")
1. Natural, universal rights of the individual
2. Consent of the governed
3. Rule of law
4. Government as protector of life, liberty, property
5. Right of rebellion
2. Relation to social order
1. Compatibility with material inequality
2. Inspiration for challenges by excluded groups
5. Overlaps between republicanism and liberalism
4. The public sphere in eighteenth-century colonial America
1. Extent and limits of democracy
1. The right to vote
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