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Slavery became fully established in the colonies in this range of yeras.

1680s

100

The year Massachusetts Bay Colony passed a law to allow slavery.

1641

100

The year Phillis Wheatley was brought to Boston.

1761

100

This is the year that the first group of Africans landed at Jamestown.

1619

100

This person was set free from being a slave who was first purchased directly from the ship by a tailor.

Phillis Wheatley

200
Famers grew this in the southern colonies.

Tobacco and rice.

200

This is the country that the first ship carrying slaves came from.

Dutch

200

Some enslaved Africans came here instead of North America.

West Indies

200

This is the name of the long, horrific journey to the Americas for enslaved Africans.

Middle Passage

200

Originally, enslaved people came mostly from this place.

western part of Africa, the Gold Coast

300
Enslaved Africans had special knowledge of how to grow this crop specifically.

Rice

300
These are ways that Enslaved Africans brought their culture to America.

Words, foods, music, and customs

300

This region had the highest number of enslaved Africans of any region.

Southern colonies

300

These are the different types of work, other than working in the fields, that enslaved Africans also did.

Worked in shops, helping artisans with their work or learning how to do skilled work themselves, worked in inns or in the homes of wealthy residents

300

In this region, enslaved African Americans were allowed to save money from working to buy their freedom.

Northern Colonies

400

This is the name a young enslaved boy who suffered along with dying slaves.

Olaudah Equiano

400

Once freed from slavery, this is what would happen sometimes to the freed African Americans.

Continued to live in the cities, but they had few rights, and could be taken back into slavery at any time
400
This is the reason why so many enslaved people were needed in the Southern colonies.

Larger crops were grown, such as tobacco or rice, and cotton, they needed more workers to tend, pick, and prepare the plants for shipping

400
This is what enslaved Africans had as a source of joy, but also a source of worry and fear

Families

400

This is the estimated enslaved population in the south in 1760.

205,000-220,000

500

Enslaved Africans did not only work in the fields, they also brought this to their work.

Special skills and knowledge

500
The Enslaved Africans shared their knowledge of growing crops, but how did this end up as a bad result for the enslaved people.
Rice plantations grew larger, so more enslaved Africans were needed
500

This was the reason that in 1619, slavery became something different than it was before.

Africans were captured, taken against their will without hope of freedom or return to their families, before they were treated with some respect and dignity

500

Once purchased, enslaved Africans became this to their owners.

Property

500
These are the skills that Phillis Wheatley had that were not common to other enslaved people.

She could read and write.