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American Studies 100
Monday, February 8th, 1999
Announcements: Finish lecture on Witchcraft trials
and Puritan Colony and begin lecture on Slavery
Lecture notes:
Factors Leading to the End of
the Witchcraft Trials
-Originally allowed into court,
but people began to speak and write against it
- Ex: Cotton Mather's father
argued against it
- Stopped admitting to it
- Did not accept the testimony
of the bewitched in court anymore
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Governor's wife being accused showed how wide-spread the accusations had
become
Involuntary Immigration
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Slavery became the most staggering example of man immigration in history
--- involuntary
- 6 out of every 7 persons that
migrated were Africans
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Many unfreedoms in the world at the time of the Atlantic slave trade
1600 - 1700 Slave Trade
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Most people came as endentured servants
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The status of the first blacks was unclear, but was not a chattel
slave
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Time of service was a set specific time (average was 7 years)
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Contractual - Before or when they arrived their contract was set for a
specific time period
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Flexibility - Could add or subtract time from the contract
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Contract was standing in the eyes of the law
Domestic Slavery
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In Africa, enslaving people
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Labored for a specific amount of time
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Pre-Pan African
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Non-violent
Causes of Enslavement
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Plantation Work
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War
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Religion
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"Pawn" - Work out a debt
Chattel Slavery
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Slaves status assumed to be property
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Time of service was for life
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Not contractual
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Could "breed" slaves
Journey to the New World
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Loose packing/Tight Packing
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4 weeks to 3 months depending on weather
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Food and water was scarce
- Slaves
thrown overboard if there was a lack of food and water
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10 million people were migrated
- 400,000
to colonial North Carolina
- 9,600,000
elsewhere in colonial United States
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