Slavery and Empire, 1441 - 1770
The Beginnings of African Slavery
Sugar and Slavery
West Africans
The African Slave Trade
The Demography of the Slave Trade
Slavers of All Nations
The Shock of Enslavement
The Middle Passage
Arrival in the New World
Political and Economic Effects on Africa
The Development of North American Slave Societies
Slavery Comes to North America
The Tobacco Colonies
The Lower South
Slavery in the Spanish Colonies
French Louisiana
Slavery in the North
Becoming African American
The Daily Life of Slaves
Families and Communities
African American Culture
The Africanization of the South
Violence and Resistance
Slavery and the Structure of Empire
Slavery the Mainspring
The Politics of Mercantilism
Wars for Empire
British Colonial Regulation
The Colonial Economy
Slavery and Freedom
The Social Structure of the Slave Colonies
White Skin Privilege
Maps
Images
Vocabulary
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Slavic |
Madeira |
Timbuktu |
Polygyny |
Panyaring |
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Barracoons |
Dysentery |
Overseer |
Indigo |
Mercantilism |
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Thaler |
Cudjo |
Quow |
Coffee |
Monopoly |
People and Events
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Olaudah Equian |
Mansa Musa |
Moors |
John Hawkins |
Middle Passage |
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King William's War |
Queen Anne's War |
War of Jenkins's Ear |
King George's War |
French and Indian War |
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Elizabeth Pinckney |
James Oglethorpe |
John Woolman |
Jean Baptiste Colbert |
Elite |
Review Questions
Trace the development of the system of slavery and discuss the way it became entrenched in the Americas.
Describe the effects of the slave trade both on enslaved Africans and on the economic and political life of Africa.
Describe the process of acculturation involved in becoming an African American. In what ways did slaves "Africanize" the South?
Explain the connection between the institution of slavery and the building of a commercial empire.
In what ways did colonial policy encourage the growth of racism?
Recommended Readings
Michael Craton, Sinews of Empire: A Short History of British Slavery (1974).
Philip D. Curtin, The African Slave Trade: A Census (1969).
Herbert G. Gutman, The Black Family in Slavery and Freedom, 1750 - 1925 (1976).
Winthrop D. Jordan, White over Black: American Attitudes toward the Negro, 1550 - 1812 (1968).
Peter Kolchin, American Slavery, 1619 - 1877 (1993).
Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (1974).
Mechal Sobel, The World They Made Together: Black and White Values in Eighteenth-Century Virginia (1987).
Ian K. Steele, Warpaths: Invasions of North America (1994).
Sterling Stuckey, Slave Culture: Nationalist Theory and the Foundations of Black America (1987).
Hugh Thomas, The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440 - 1870 (1997).