AASP 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Indentured Servant, Serfdom, Slavery

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: African American Studies
• Course: AASP 100
• Professor: Shane Walsh

Document Summary

American chattel slavery: the troubled roots of america. American agriculture: vital aspect of the american economy, in md, 350,000 individual workers rely on agriculture for a living, largest commercial industry in md. Forced labor: forced labor, it"s e(cid:454)a(cid:272)tl(cid:455) (cid:449)hat it sou(cid:374)ds like, like wwii, cooperatio(cid:374)"s like mer(cid:272)edes be(cid:374)z, audis, volks(cid:449)age(cid:374)s, fa(cid:374)ta. Types of slavery and how they influenced slavery as we know it: chattel slavery, the t(cid:455)pe of sla(cid:448)er(cid:455) that"s t(cid:455)pi(cid:272)all(cid:455) the (cid:373)ost fa(cid:373)iliar to. Middle passage: trans-atlantic slave trade was the largest movement of people in history, between 10-15 million africans were forcibly transported across the. Atlantic between 1500-1900: this figure grossly understates the actual number of africans enslaved, killed, or displaced as a result of the slave trade, at least 2 million africans 10-15% - died duri(cid:374)g the i(cid:374)fa(cid:373)ous (cid:862)middle. Passage(cid:863) a(cid:272)ross the atla(cid:374)ti(cid:272: another 15-30% percent died during the march to or confinement along the coast, altogether, for every 100 slaves who reached the new world, another.