1. Ordered Sharing
     “I didn't know I was a slave until I found out I couldn't do the things I wanted”  
Frederick Douglass
     “For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.”  
Jonathan Swift
     “Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness”  
John Adams
     “Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal - that there is no human relation between master and slave”  
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy
     “There is no slavery but ignorance.”  
Robert Green Ingersoll
     “Slavery is now no where more patiently endured, than in countries once inhabited by the zealots of liberty”  
Samuel Johnson

2. Everyone Move
Everyone in class move to the center tables in the room.

3. The Southern Colonies: Plantations and Slavery
4.3 Notes

4. Slavery Slavery becomes entrenched in southern culture
Evolution of Slavery
Indians
Indentured servants
African American slaves

5. The Middle Passage
The Journey aboard ship that African slaves took from Africa to America
Branded with Irons, whipped and beat, lived in their own vomit and waste, disease, suicide
20 percent died on the Journey

7. Lifestyle of a Slave 80-90% of slaves worked in fields
10-20% worked in houses
Fulltime work from 12 years old to death
Overseers
Were in charge of making sure slaves worked
Would often beat and punish slaves

8. Critical Thinking Journals
Put yourself into the shoes of a slave. What do you think would be the worst part about being a slave

9. Africans Cope in their New World
Culture & Family
Weaving and baskets
Musical Traditions
Dance

10. The Plantation Economy
Plantations are expensive to run because they take a lot of labor
Slaves were cheap labor and did back breaking work
Cleared fields, drained swamps, and eventually worked in fields to grow crops
Cotton
Indigo
Tobacco
Rice

11. The Planter Class The Social Elite – Upper Class
Very few, but had the most power
Bought up small farms to create one large farm
Farmers with 1 or 2 slaves could not compete