Economics
This is what enslaved people were categorized as.
What is property?
These two environmental characteristics helped make large scale plantation agriculture possible.
What are climate and soil?
Slave codes, religious justifications, plantation structure, and racial distinctions all helped accomplish this larger goal.
What is the establishment and normalization of slavery in society?
Plantation owners shifted toward enslaved Africans because, in their minds, they were more this.
What is controllable?
These ideas became especially important during the American Revolution and created a contradiction with slavery.
What are liberty and equality?
This trade connected colonial plantations to merchants, shipowners, and European manufacturers.
What is the Atlantic Slave trade?
What two crops were important in the Carolina Lowcountry?
What are rice and indigo?
These colonial laws restricted the rights of slaves and helped protect the workforce.
What are slave codes?
During the early colonial period, these workers were primarily used as forced labor, especially in Virginia and Maryland.
What are indentured servants?
Colonial slave codes restricted a slave's ability to do this thing, including travel, gathering, owning property, and education.
What are basic rights?
This name is categorized to primary crops grown within the Southern colonies.
What are Cash Crops?
These geographic features allowed plantations to be built along riverbanks and allowed ships to load crops directly from plantation properties.
What are deep-water rivers?
Plantation life physically separated slaves from white colonists through the division between this building and the slave quarters.
What is the Big House?
This labor system involved white overseers monitoring slaves from sunup to sundown.
What is the gang system?
Black Americans used these Revolutionary ideas to challenge the assumption that freedom primarily belonged to white colonists.
What are natural rights?
Enslaved labor allowed Southern colonies to produce more goods, leading to more of this within trade.
What are exports?
This type of environment contributed to disease and influenced the way enslaved labor was organized within the Lowcountry.
What are humid and disease prone swamps/lowlands?
African ancestry became associated with enslavement and limited rights, while whiteness became associated with freedom and social status. This helped create this.
What is a racial hierarchy?
This system of servitude constitued a lifelong and hereditary condition.
What is chattel slavery?
This rebellion is an example of resistance that influenced the development of restrictive slave codes.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This system created economic opportunities beyond plantations and became difficult to challenge because ending it would threaten many people's income and work.
What is a self-sustaining economy?
Accessible locations such as Charleston became important entry points for ships transporting slaves because of their access to these.
What are Atlantic harbors?
Colonists used this idea to argue that racial inequality and slavery were morally justified.
What is the Curse of Ham?
Enslaved workers performed specific amounts of work under this labor system.
What is the task system?
The American Revolution created a major contradiction as colonists fought for this while continuing to maintain slavery.
What is freedom?