HIST205 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Westport, Massachusetts, Michael Schudson, Paul Cuffee
18 Mar 2017
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Study guide 18th century new england - Royall house still stands turkish carpets & library. Chan - 65,000 artifacts - pottery, sewing implements, tableware, coins, metal, buttons, buckles, & shards glass. 2: grew produce, cooked & preserved foods, made soap & candles, & maintained house & horses; leisure time marbles, game pieces, african rituals items. Slavery 18th century rhode island : ri newport & bristol major slave markets; slave-based economies. Narragansett plantation, middletown crop workers, & indentured/slave craftsmen of newport: blacks higher % total population than elsewhere new england; mid-18th . Ri highest proportion slave-to-white any colony; laws more severe: narragansett county- conditions large-scale farming, & more than anywhere else in n. system like s. plantation colonies - stantons narragansett- least 40 slaves. Book on black yankees in 18th century colonial new england : historians ignored topic african americans colonial ne until 1980"s, black yankees: the development of an afro-american subculture in.
