1. Economics and Slavery

2. What was slavery about? Race Politics Economics Pick one and place your answer on the individual sheet. Additionally, mark each group member’s response on the group sheet.

3. Developing the Continent

5. How?
Pick a labor force. You need 100 workers to develop 20 square miles of land. Do the math. 100 European workers can develop 20 square miles of land/year. Each European worker demands a salary of 10.00/year. 500 Native Americans can develop 7 square miles of land/year. Native Americans need to be replaced monthly because this group does not survive once exposed to Europeans. 100 European indentured servants can develop 10 square miles of land/year. The requirement is passage to the New World. Each passage ticket is Each servant must be released after seven years. How long and how much would it take to develop 40 square miles?

6. Indentured Servants

7. New Option African Cost Tribe A 1.00 Tribe B 2.00 Tribe C 3.00
Tribe D Free
Which tribe will you purchase from? A D B C

8. If D

9. Africans
If you selected D you are now sick and suffer death. Europeans are not immune to African interior diseases. Pick another option from previous page. Go back to “pick a labor force” page. Add Africans to the list. Africans cost 1.00 and develop 25 square miles. Pick a labor force again.

11. A Global Event Why Slavery? Need a labor force
Indentured servants and Native Americans do not work
Slave trade already exists

12. Why would such a device be needed?

13. Permanent Involuntary Hereditary Servitude
What does the above phrase mean?   
Pretend you are part of a local/state government dealing with the legal issue of African workers. Create a law that allows slavery.
Mulatto children are popping out everywhere. If Papa determines status in society then the Mulatto kids are not born slaves. Create a law that finds a loophole for this problem.

14. First Africans were Indentured Servants

15. Black Codes Refer to the code sheet and identify two of interest
Local and State laws
American Revolution
Federal government supports=Political debate leading to the Civil War
PIHS

16. Transportation Slave capacity=500 Slaves sell for 3.00 in US
African cost=1.00 (tribe A)
Crew cost=20.00
Ship operation=10.00
Feeding slaves=.20/each
How many will you take over the Atlantic?

20. The journey from Africa to the New World takes 3 months
The journey from Africa to the New World takes 3 months. Consider the following: If you decided to transport 500 slaves 300 will not survive. Determine profit here __________________________ If you decided to take… do not make the journey do not make the journey All survive Tight Packing-Using the full load capacity of a ship to transport Africans. Living conditions, food and natural selection kill of some of the cargo. Notice the word cargo. Loose Packing-Decision to take less African cargo but improving ship conditions resulting in less death.

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22. The Dozens in Slavery

23. Mona Lisa Saloy posits a different theory, stating in African American Oral Traditions in Louisiana that "The dozens has its origins in the slave trade of New Orleans where deformed slaves—generally slaves punished with dismemberment for disobedience—were grouped in lots of a 'cheap dozen' for sale to slave owners.

25. 50 Years Later
Female slaves are now in demand. Why?
Go back to “transportation” slide and/or question. Females cost 5.00males cost 3.00 (inflation and tribes in Africa demand more payment). How many Africans will you transport?

26. Plantation Owner
You have 100 slaves producing 30 pounds of cotton/day. Cotton will be sold to factories in the north. Northern factories are using the cotton to produce clothing. You need to produce 20,000 pounds/week. What will you do to achieve this goal? 100 slaves .50 to feed each slave daily operation cost Northern factories pay 25.00/1,000 pounds Northern factories will pay /21,000 pounds/week Determine profit

27. Out of your 100 slaves, 20 begin defying your orders which starts to spread to other slaves who are also becoming defiant. What do you do?

28. Slave Breaking

29. Make them stand in awe of the master’s power
Steps
Strict discipline
Belief in inferiority
Make them stand in awe of the master’s power
Accept the master’s good behavior

30. Year
Pounds
1790
1,567,000
1795
8,359,500
1800
36,572,500
1805
73,145,000
1810
88,819,000
1815
104,493,000
1820
167,189,000
1825
266,457,500
1830
365,726,000
1835
530,355,500
1840
673,116,000
1845
902,111,500
1850
1,066,925,500
1855
1,608,708,500
1860
1,918,701,000
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31. Possible Political Disaster
18. Packet Conclusion: 19. Why did slavery exist for so long in America?