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1 Southern and Northern Society

2 Southern Society

3 Indentured Servitude Headright System Indentured Contract, 1746

4 Indentured Servitude Headright System:  Each Virginian got 50 acres for each person whose passage they paid. Indenture Contract:  5-7 years.  Promised “freedom dues” [land, £]  Forbidden to marry.  1610-1614: only 1 in 10 outlived their indentured contracts!

5 The Atlantic Slave Trade

6 Goods Traded with Africa

7 The “Middle Passage”

8 As the number of slaves increased, white colonists reacted to put down perceived racial threat.  Slavery transformed from economic to economic and racial institution.  Early 1600s  differences between slave and servant were unclear. By the mid-1680s, black slaves outnumbered white indentured servants. Colonial Slavery

9 Beginning in 1662  “Slave Codes”  Made blacks [and their children] property, or chattel for life of white masters.  In some colonies, it was a crime to teach a slave to read or write.  Conversion to Christianity did not qualify the slave for freedom. Colonial Slavery

10 Late 1600s  large numbers of young, poor, discontented men in the Chesapeake area.  Little access to land or women for marriage. 1670  The Virginia Assembly disenfranchised most landless men! Frustrated Freemen

11 Virginians in a rebellion Led 1,000 against Governor Berkeley  Rebels resented Berkeley’s close relations with Indians.  Berkeley monopolized the fur trade with the Indians in the area.  Berkley refused to retaliate for Indian attacks on frontier settlements. Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676 Nathaniel Bacon Governor William Berkeley

12 Bacon’s Rebellion: 1676

13 Rebels attacked Indians, whether they were friendly or not to whites. Governor Berkeley driven from Jamestown. They burned the capital.  Rebels went on a rampage of plundering. Bacon suddenly died of fever. Berkeley brutally crushed the rebellion and hanged 20 rebels. Bacon’s Rebellion

14 It exposed resentments between inland frontiersmen and landless former servants against gentry on coastal plantations.  Socio-economic class differences/clashes between rural and urban communities would continue throughout American history. Upper class planters searched for laborers less likely to rebel  BLACK SLAVES!! Results of Bacon’s Rebellion

15 Characteristics of New England

16 Characteristics of New England Settlements Low mortality  average life expectancy was 70 years of age. Many extended families. Average 6 children per family. Average age at marriage:  Women – 22 years old  Men – 27 years old.

17 Patriarchy Authoritarian male father figures controlled each household. Patriarchal ministers and magistrates controlled church congregations and household patriarchs.

18 Population of the New England Colonies

19 Population Comparisons: New England v. the Chesapeake

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