SVP.3.SOL.2,3 Slavery and Freedom

Schlessinger Video Productions, United States History Volume 2, 1996. 35 minutes

The Era of Colonialization: 1585-1763

0:00 Leader. 2 min.

2:00 Introduction. 1:50 min.

  1. Prosperity in North America depended upon forced labor: first indentured servants, then African slaves.

3:25Slavery and Freedom

3:30The Atlantic World. 2:10 min.

Mercantilism

  1. The Navigation laws of England said that only English ships could carry good from English colonies to England.

5:40The SugarIslands. 6:50 min.

Sugar. Spanish and Portuguese. Mortality. English sugar and African slavery.

  1. Slaves were fed with fish from New England.
  2. Slaves were fed with wheat from Pennsylvania and New York. (Middle)
  3. Slaves were fed with beef from Virginia. (South)
  4. Everything was connected to the slave trade. New Englandlumber industry provided wood for barrels to ship items in slave trade.
  5. The Middle Colonies became the bread basket of the colonies, exporting grain through Philadelphia.
  6. Southern plantations were manned by slaves growing “cash crops”.
  7. The Chesapeake (Virginia and Maryland) supplied cash crops such as tobacco.
  8. South Carolina and Georgia cultivated rice, South Carolina made a blue dye from indigo.

12:00Labor in a New World: Indentured Servants. 5:20 min.

  1. Colonists used enslaved native-Americans, then indentured servants from European over-populated poor and prisons.
  2. Once indentured servants were freed, they became competitors to their masters. Racially bonded slaves would not.

17:20Labor in a New World: Black Gold. 1:55 min.

  1. The first Africans were brought to English North America by Dutch traders to Jamestown in 1619.
  2. During the 1600’s, Africans were treated much as indentured servants, but as more came, chattel slavery developed without the possibility of freedom.
  3. In the 1700s, more Africans came by the Middle Passage into permanent slavery.

19:15The Deep South2:55 min.

African contributions. African-American culture.

22:10The Trade in Black Gold3:25 min.

Violence between masters and slaves. African slave wars.

  1. The Middle Passage was the trans-Atlantic transfer of Africans to the Americas as slaves, most sold to Spanish and Portuguese in Latin America and the Caribbean.

25:35Slavery and Freedom. 6:15 min.

  1. In 1619, the Virginia colony began the first representative assembly, the House of Burgesses (now the General Assembly).
  2. In New England, self governing grew out of Puritan ideals. The Mayflower Compact was an agreement that the majority would choose their rulers.
  3. Local colonial legislatures could meet independently, pass laws governing their colony, and they had the authority to tax.

31:50The Great Awakening. 2:25 min.

  1. Jonathan Edwards led a “Great Awakening” of religious spiritual renewal.
  2. It spread to all the colonies, a national phenomenon.
  3. It was spontaneously of the people, the Great Awakening challenged established religions and governments.

34:10The New American 3:30 min.

Benjamin Franklin

  1. The Americans would undertake an experiment of representative government that would change the course of world history.

37:40 end.