Slavery in the British Colonies

Jamestown, VA

First permanent English settlement

William Tucker

First black child born in the colonies

Anthony Johnson

Antonio's new name

John Punch

Technically, the first slave

Bacon’s Rebellion

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

Miscegenation

Interracial sexual contacts

Creolization

The producing of African American children from African parents

Mulattoes

Children of miscegenation

Biracial

Black and white parentage

Slave Societies

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

Societies with Slaves

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

Outliers

Remain closely and raid the plantation at night

Maroons

Established communities on the frontier

Slave Rebellions

More common in Jamaica and Brazil

Stono Rebellion

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

Lowcountry Slaveholders

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

Fort Mose

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

French America (New France)

Was a frontier and a borderland

First Period of Slaves in Colonial New Spain

African slaves accompanied Spanish invaders and conquistadors as companions and servants

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

Third Period in Slaves in Colonial New Spain

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