America and the British Empire, 1650-1754
Resources:
Colonial City: Revolutionary Battleground
Resource Type: E-Seminar
Relevant pages:
British New York
The Origins of Slavery in the New World
Resource Type: E-Seminar
Relevant pages:
Introduction
Slavery in History: The Legacy of 1492
The Triangular Trades: The Slave Gun Cycle
The Triangular Trades: Continuity of Slavery
Slavery in the Americas: Free to Forced Labor
Slavery in the Americas: Plantation Agriculture
Laws and Statutes: Undefined Legal Status
Laws and Statues: Emerging Racism
Laws and Statues: Codifying Slavery
Laws and Statutes: Slave Labor Expands
Laws and Statues: The Virginia Slave Code
Slavery and Empire: The British Empire
Slavery and Empire: A Slave Narrative
Systems of Slavery: Diversity
Systems of Slavery: The Chesapeake
Systems of Slavery: The South
Systems of Slavery: The North
Slave Resistance
Relevant texts:
Text from the 1662 slavery act passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Text from the the Slave Code, the 1705 slavery statutes passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses to regularize slavery.
Excerpt from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).
Text from the 1662 slavery act passed by the Virginia House of Burgesses.
Excerpt from Olaudah Equiano, The Interresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African.
Relevant transcripts:
Professor Foner discusses Bacon's Rebellion.
Professor Foner discusses the misery of the Middle Passage.
Professor Foner explains the social and economic impact of rice cultivation in the South.
Relevant interactive tools:
Professor Foner explains how European monarchs and merchants wanted to bypass the Arab, Berber, and Muslim middlemen, who dominated the international trade routes acress Africa and the Middle and Near East to India and China. A direct water route instead, from Europe to China, around the southern tip of Africa, promised the Europeans greater control and wealth.
Providing a long-term perspective on the history of slavery, Professor Foner argues that slavery in the New World was different from slavery in Africa.
Professor Foner discusses the tobacco-based system of slavery in the Chesapeake
Excerpt from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith (1776).
Resource Type: Primary Source
Excerpt from Olaudah Equiano, The Interresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavas Vassa, the African.
Resource Type: Primary Source
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