1. Colonial Slavery

2. West Africa supplied majority of slaves to New World Only about 5% of enslaved Africans carried to British North America Initially a relatively fluid status, but by 1700 both the Chesapeake and Carolinas had become slave societies New England merchant fleet heavily involved in slave trade Slavery in North American British Colonies –Chesapeake: gang system –South Carolina: task system –New England and Middle Atlantic colonies Slave Life and Culture –Survival and Adaptation –Family, religion, music, food –Fusion and Ethnogenesis –Resistance: the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739

4. Slave Trading Post, 1682

5. Slave Sale in West Africa

6. Slave Ship

7. The Middle Passage

8. West Indian Sugar Mill

9. Rum Distillery - Antigua

10. Hemispheric Distribution of African Slaves

11. 1780s Slave Sale Advertisement Charleston, SC

12. Slaves Packing Tobacco in 18 th -century Virginia

13. Virginia Family Group circa 1745

15. Colonial Slavery West Africa supplied majority of slaves to New World Only about 5% of enslaved Africans carried to British North America Initially a relatively fluid status, but by 1700 both the Chesapeake and Carolinas had become slave societies New England merchant fleet heavily involved in slave trade Slavery in North American British Colonies –Chesapeake: gang system –South Carolina: task system –New England and Middle Atlantic colonies Slave Life and Culture –Survival and Adaptation –Family, religion, music, food –Fusion and Ethnogenesis –Resistance: the Stono Rebellion in South Carolina in 1739