“traffick in men”
 Start of Slavery
 Colonial Labor
 Birth of Slavery
 Biggest Fear
 Racism Grows
 Conclusion
 What do you think Thomas
Jefferson meant when he said
that slavery was like holding “a
wolf by the ear, and we can neither
hold him, nor safely let him go.”
 First African slaves taken by Portuguese, 1444
 Columbus and natives, 1492
 Spanish sent slaves to their colonies
 Thousands of slaves by 1619
 Purpose of colonies?
 Tobacco VERY time consuming
 Required large labor force
 First slaves brought to Jamestown, 1619
 VERY EXPENSIVE, 5 year life expectancy
 Two alternative choices
1. Native Americans
2. INDENTURED SERVANTS
 Indentured servants
 Poor Europeans
 Sold in colonies as a servant, 4-7 years
 Purpose = earn land
 Thousands risked their lives to get
land that was unavailable in England
 Majority = Teens/early 20s
 Male = tobacco
 Females = housekeepers/maids
 14% of 3,010 emigrants in 1635
 15,000 came to Chesapeake (1625 – 1640)
 Population increased by 7,000?
 Indentured servants = Property
 Killed by master = no consequences
 Run away or defiant = extra time
 Most indentured servants gone by 1700
 Industrial Revolution changed England
 Emigration dropped in late 1600s
 18,000 in 1660s
 13,000 in 1680s
 Planters turned to African slaves
 £25 – 30 for Life Service
 £ 15 for 4 Years Service
 Native Americans often traded for African slaves
 Animation
 Slave revolts feared in the colonies
 Colonial militias formed to “protect”
 New laws created, enforced by militias
 Restricted movement & trading
 Laws punished blacks exclusively
 Assault a white person = 30 lashes
 All livestock taken & given to poor whites
 Laws encouraged racism
 Laws against interracial sex only applied to
white women (6 months prison & £10 fine)
 No interracial marriages
 South Carolina = 1998
 Alabama = 2000
 Slave numbers grew from 1619 – 1865
 Slavery became racially identifiable
“These two words Negro and Slave have, by
custom, grown homogeneous and
convertible.”
 Colonies became economically dependent
 Racism grew incredibly
 Ex. "one-drop rule''