ORIGINS OF SLAVERY IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA

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ORIGINS OF SLAVERY IN COLONIAL VIRGINIA
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Slavery in the New World

• Slavery First Introduced into South America
• Africans Critical Immigrant Group
• Numbers Transported, 1500-1900
• British North America Not a Major Destination

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Importation of Slaves, 1451-1810
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Total 7,606,000
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Impact of Slaves on Europeans

• Labor and Skills
• African Culture
• Legacy of Racism

Slaves Cultivating Tobacco
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Indentured Servants as a Source of Labor in
Colonial Virginia

• Contract
• Geographic Destinations
• Similarities Between Slaves and Indentured
  Servants
• Occupied Intermediate Position Between Free Labor
  and Slaves
• Two Contrast with Slaves

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Demography and the Price of Labor

• Economic Incentives for Using Indentured Servants
• Discovery of Tobacco
• Cost of Slaves versus Cost of Indentured Servants
• Short Life Expectancy

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Cycle of Social Mobility until 1660
Landowners
Tobacco Growers
Free Labor
Indentured Servants
Imported Labor From England
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Causes of the Collapse of Social Mobility After
1660

• Population Growth
• Parliaments Curbs on Tobacco Exports
• Soaring Land Values

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Origins of Bacons Rebellion

• Surplus of Freedmen Unable to Buy Land
• Conflict with Native Americans
• Expedition to Quell Unrest on Frontier
• Bacons Rebellion, 1676

Bacon Confronted Virginias Governor
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Virginia Turned Upside Down
Nathaniel Bacon, Leader of the Rebellion
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Impact of Bacons Rebellion

• Foreshadowed Class War
• Landed Versus Landless
• Freedmen Now Seen as a Threat to the Stability of
  the Social Order
• Social Upheaval Seemed Inevitable as Group of
  Freedmen Continued Growing

Burning of Jamestown
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Shift to Slavery in Virginia from 1676

• Slaves a Minority of Work Force, 1671
• Avoidance of Social Revolution
• Demographic Changes
• Social Advantages of Slaveholding
• Englands Expanded Supply of Slaves

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