HIST 3850 Lecture Notes - Grand Jury, Jury Trial, Bench Trial
25 Nov 2013
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Death penalty in the usa and canada before 1867. The justice system in usa and canada: in late 1700s the 13 colonies were made of groups of different religions. Georgia for example would punish people by banishing them. Virginia people who committed a crime would be punished with owing tobacco. Each colonies labour force was made up of slave labour. Highly dependant on slave labour was maryland, virginia, north and south. 12 million import slaves were brought into the southern colonies. Caribbean, reproduction did not made up for death. Mainly because labour and abuse was much more difficult. American population, c. 1760: virginia/maryland:312,000(white 189,000(black, n& s carolina, georgia: 119,00(white); 94,000 (black, south carolina: 36,000 (white); 57,000 (black, slavery also occurred in canada nova scotia, qu bec, ontario. But slavery didn"t make a lot of sense because we did not have the climate for large plantations. They would instead work as domestics: each 13 colonies shared a common language, until canada.
