Increased Demand for Enslaved Africans / Slave Laws
Whites regarding all Blacks as inferior to them was an effect from
What is Slavery
This year marks when the first group of about 25 African indentured servants arrived in Virgina
What is 1619
The Maryland and Virginia landowners could easily obtain land by taking or trading it from American Indians but what was the issue they had with maintaining the crops they wanted to put on the new land
What is Not enough labors willing to work for low wages
Struggled to maintain family ties; adopting Christianity while keeping elements of African religion, and using songs and storytelling to maintain traditions and customs was all examples of
What is Resistance of slavery
Increases in wages in England reduced the supply of immigrants to the colonies
What is Reduced Migration
By the end of this decade, Virginia had passed laws placing Africans and their children in permanent bondage
What are the 1660s
Where did the Virginia company get its main source of labor from before turning to slavery
What is Indentured servants
Which colony had an increased demand for enslaved Africans
What is the Southern Colony
Large plantation owners were disturbed by the political demands of small farmers and indentured servants and by the disorders of Bacon's Rebellion. They thought that slavery would provide a stable labor force totally under their control
What is Dependable workforce
This colony became the first to recognize the enslavement of "lawful" captives in 1641.
What was the 1661 law in Massachusetts
What famous demand from Europeans towards Virginia and Maryland caused them to scurry to find a way to get more land and find workers to care for their crops
What is Tobacco
Who passed the law that caused African children to be born into slavery
What is The Virginia House of Burgesses
As tobacco prices fell, rice and indigo became the most profitable crops. To grow such crops required a large land area and many inexpensive, relatively unskilled field hands
What is Low-cost labor
What increased the demand for Enslaves Africans
What is reduced migration, dependable workforce, low-cost labor
When Virginia attempted to attract immigrants by offering 50 acres of land to each immigrant who paid for their own passage and to any plantation owner who paid for an immigrants passage
What is Headright system
Which colony contained the highest number of enslaved people
What is The British Colonies
Children automatically inheriting their mother's enslaved status, people enslaved that were baptized were stilled enslaved, and White women could not marry African American men were all examples of
What is Laws White colonists adopted to keep slavery
By 1750 this fraction of Virginia's population was enslaved
What is 50%
Which of the three options of demand for enslaved Africans had the most impact on the British colonies. Reduced migration, dependable workforce, or low-cost labor
What is Low-cost labor
In what century did all British colonies include some enslaved laborers
What is The 18th century