Tuesday September 29

Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763

Classwork for Tuesday September 29

1. Quick five question T/F quiz on homework reading (Homework grade/ 10%)

2. PPT Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction through The Middle Passage.

3. History beyond the textbook. Go to: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=2&psid=446 (The Middle Passage, by Steve Mintz)Read, Research, and Write a well-constructed paragraph on what you found most interesting about this article, and why.(Classwork grade/20%)

Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction

Olaudah Equiano: 1789-The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African.

Condemned the idea that Africans were inferior to Europeans, which made it acceptable to enslave them.

Although concentrated in the Chesapeake and areas further south, slavery existed in every colony of British North America.

Unlike Equiano, a vast majority of slaves never acquired their freedom.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyThe title page of Olaudah Equiano’s account of his life.

Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Slavery and Empire

-7.7 million Africans transported to New World between 1492-1820 (328 yrs)

-Regular business involving European merchants, African slave traders, and American planters.

-First mass consumer goods in international trade were produced by slaves: sugar, rice, coffee, tobacco.

-Increasing European demand for these products fueled the Atlantic slave trade.

Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Atlantic Trade

A series of trade routes crisscrossed the Atlantic.

Colonial merchants profited from the slave trade, even in areas where slavery was a minor institution (New England.)

Slavery became connected with the color black, and liberty with the color white.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 4.1 Atlantic Trading Routes

Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Africa and the Slave Trade

• Most African rulers took part in the slave trade, gaining guns, textiles, and rum in exchange for their slaves.

• The Atlantic slave trade was concentrated in West Africa.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyMap 4.2 The Slave Trade in The Atlantic World, 1460–1770

Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, The Middle Passage

The Middle Passage was the voyage across the Atlantic for African slaves.

Slaves were crammed aboard ship for maximum profit.

Slave traders took the vast majority of slaves to Brazil and the West Indies, where death rates were high.

Fewer than 5 percent of African slaves went to what became the United States, where the slave population increased steadily due to natural reproduction.

Give Me Liberty!: An American history, 3rd EditionCopyright © 2011 W.W. Norton & CompanyAn architect’s plan for a slave ship.

Classwork for Tuesday September 29

1. Quick five question T/F quiz on homework reading (Homework grade/ 10%)

2. PPT Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763, Introduction through The Middle Passage.

3. History beyond the textbook. Go to: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook_print.cfm?smtid=2&psid=446 (The Middle Passage, by Steve Mintz)Read, Research, and Write a well-constructed paragraph on what you found most interesting about this article, and why.(Classwork grade/20%)

Homework due Wednesday September 30

• Chapter 4, Slavery, Freedom, and the Struggle for Empire to 1763. Reading and notes on, pp. 141-147, Chesapeake Slavery through Slavery in the North.

• For tomorrow, be prepared to answer a five-question True/False quiz based on your homework reading. (Homework grade 10%)