CAS SO 207 Chapter Notes -Nat Turner, Gerhard Lenski, Nazi Concentration Camps
11 Mar 2014
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The development of dominant-minority group relations in preindustrial america: the origins of slavery. Colonists saw slavery as a solution to the labor-intensive farm work done by hand (industrial revolution was still two centuries away) Plantation system based on cultivating crops such as sugar, tobacco, and rice on large tracts of land using a large, cheap labor force: profits were low so workforce had to be cheap (i. e. slaves) Attempt to use a. i. as labor failed because there were too few of them and some american indian nations retained enough power to resist enslavement. This left black africans as main source of labor and slave trade began from africa to spain and portugal to south america (this kidnapped millions of africans) Pages 104-112: the creation of slavery in the united states, noel hypothesis for why black africans were enslaved instead of white indentured servants or a. i. colonial group: All three were objects of ethnocentric feelings on part of dominant.
