Outline
Origins
of Slavery
Historiography
Red, White, and Black
Origins
Portuguese 1472
England, Royal African Company (1663)
1672
DY
1680s – 5,000 – 6,000 slaves annually
End of monopoly – 1698 – 20,000
annually
Transportation
West Africa – 75%
Coffles
barracoons
Middle passage
Caribbean
North
America
1619 – first Africans in Virginia
From indentured servants to African
slavery
“The American Paradox”
Indentured servants – 75% of
Virginians
Headright
Distribution of land
Bacon’s
Rebellion
Nathaniel Bacon 1675
Susquehannock
William Berkeley
Slavery
as a solution
Black codes (slave codes)
Conditions
of slavery