Slavery in the British Colonies

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Jamestown, VA

First permanent English settlement

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William Tucker

First black child born in the colonies

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Anthony Johnson

Antonio's new name

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John Punch

Technically, the first slave

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Bacon’s Rebellion

An uprising on the restrictive land policies of Virginia led by Nathaniel Bacon

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Miscegenation

Interracial sexual contacts

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Creolization

The producing of African American children from African parents

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Mulattoes

Children of miscegenation

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Biracial

Black and white parentage

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Slave Societies

The practice or threat of violence served to punish resistance, prevent rebellions, and maintain the master-slave power structure

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Societies with Slaves

Slaveholders could treat enslaved people brutally precisely because they were marginal to their economic needs

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Outliers

Remain closely and raid the plantation at night

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Maroons

Established communities on the frontier

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Slave Rebellions

More common in Jamaica and Brazil

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Stono Rebellion

A rebellion took place near Charleston, SC led by an Angolan named Jemmy

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Lowcountry Slaveholders

Employed Christian religious instruction not only as a system of control but also as a process of acculturation

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Fort Mose

The only known free black town in the present-day southern United States that a European colonial government sponsored

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French America (New France)

Was a frontier and a borderland

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First Period of Slaves in Colonial New Spain

African slaves accompanied Spanish invaders and conquistadors as companions and servants

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Second Period in Slaves in Colonial New Spain

Disease and rigors of the Spanish labor system led to the rapid decline of indigenous populations, and the introduction and acceleration of African slavery

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Third Period in Slaves in Colonial New Spain

Experience a decline of the enslavement trade in African people and the enslaved Black population