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

Slave Trading Post, 1682

Slave Sale in West Africa

Slave Ship

The Middle Passage

West Indian Sugar Mill

Rum Distillery - Antigua

Hemispheric Distribution of African Slaves

1780s Slave Sale Advertisement Charleston, SC

Slaves Packing Tobacco in 18 th -century Virginia

Virginia Family Group circa 1745

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