2.6 - 2.10 Unit 2 assessment

Labor, Culture and Economy 

 topic  2.6: labor, culture and economy 

• Evaluated the economic effects of  enslaved people’s commodification and labor, within the outside african american communities 

2.6C1

• Interdependence between the north and south that slavery fostered. A major role in African slavery nonetheless benefited from the economy created by slavery.  

2.6C2 

The foundational  enslaved peoples and their  laborers in America's economy, descendants were alienated from their wealth both embodying and producing the structure of this economy's beginning. 

2.6C3

The enriching disparities along alverys deep American racial lines. Enslaved african americans had no weath to pass down, with no accommodation to acquire accumulated properties.   However exceptions were allowed upon the dependent enslavers' decisions.

2.7 Slavery and American Law: Slave Codes and Landmark Cases 

EK 2.7. A.4.J

Free states barred entry of free black people into the states

South Carolina's 1740 slave code prohibited enslaved gathering, drumming, learning to read, revealing running away or moving abroad. 

 It commend to death nay enslaved persons who tried to defend themselves from attack by a white person

The Big Idea?  

What is an enslaved person under the law? What are the limits of citizenship?” How do you have human rights? 

Enslaved Slaved codes 

 1661 Barbados 

 Slave is synonymous to law (or the act for the better acting on negroes) 

Chattel- a personal possession other properties other than real estate

Barbados was the first English colony to pass the comprehensive slave code in 1661. 

• In 1636 barbados proclaimed that africans or natives who arrived upon the island with a labor contract could be kept as “servants” for life

•  A variety of violent punishments were made legal, hence africans were not entitled as citizen, they weren't allowed judged and or jury under the English common law

• Quote from barbados Slave Codes

{N}egroes [are] and heathish brutish and an uncertain dangerous kind of people..” and “outrageous wills of beverly evil disparity/ 

Early Slave Codes 

1691 South Carolina

Jamaica followed the suit of the barbados codes and then on to south carolina slave codes serving around the country. 

South carolina laws included: 

• enslaved  persons are not able to carry weapons , raising animals or plant independently from their enslavers 

Early Slave Codes 

1724 Louisiana: The code Noir 

  The french louisiana contained codes of (Noir) and 54 laws; which were a collection of new orleans passed laws between spanish and french 

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The code focused mostly on catholicism obeying the sabbath even for enslaved peoples,  [Miscegenation laws} were strictly enforced 

• Children of the enslaved people belonged to the mothers enslaver. An mother status determined he childs

• Enslaved people were not citizens but those who were freed were considered to such a degree.  

 1740 South Carolina 

 The Stono Rebellion put forth many new laws that limited the movements of enslaved peoples of the black people in the colony. Furthering the outreach that black people were not citizens being adopted across other states. 

Dread Scott: A slave who unsuccessfully tried to sue for the freedom of his family. 

2.8 The Social Construction of Race and the Reproduction of status

Partus sequitur ventrem, defined a child's legal status based on their mothers significance of enslaved africans americans. 

Partus: confided in hereditary racial slavery in the United States, ensuring the af am children would inherit their status as being a slave.  Invalidating the children to not brewing owned by their parents. 

Partus: was also designed to prohibit mixed race children from inheriting the free status of their fathers. 

phenotype (skin color, hair texture) contributed towards racial identity, tying them to rights and status quos  

Topic 2.9 

Creating African American Culture 

A: describing the african american forms of art, music and language in a combined influence from a diverse sector of african cultures and local sources from diverse african culture with local sources 

A.1EX 

The creative expression drew from African ancestors, community members and local European indigenous cultures, with  blended influences. 

A.2EX 

Quilt-making   was a medium of story-telling and memory keeping established tradition that incorporated the aesthetic influences of African Americans.  

A.3EX

The varied influences african americans drew from locally constructed instruments, such as gourds, the banjo, and the drums in order to recreate the influences of west africa. 

A.4EX

Enslaved Africans arrived in the Americas with both African and European languages. Such Africans that participated in long-distance trading grew accustomed to developing a common language or (lingua franca) when communicating across languages.  

• Furthering them along to construct creole languages, Guliah (which uses combined elements from West African and European languages. 

2.9 A B 

Describes the ways African Americans adapted to the African musical elements which form their ancestors influenced the developed American musical genres. 

B.1 

Chrisitan hymns that were learned and combined rhythmic and performative elements from Africa were adapted from enslaved peoples (e.g, call/ response , clapping, improvisation  and syncopation ) later creating the american musical genre, becoming the foundation  of american musical genres, gospel and blues 

B.2 

Senegambians and West Central Africans arrived in large numbers in louisiana, which influenced the development of the american blues  ( fodder  from the senegambia region 

C.1 

Musical and faith traditions combined with the americas to biome the form of spirituals ( referring to sorrow or juliet songs)  

• Theses songs were sung and written to article the hardships and hopes they desired 

C.2 religious African AMerican paratices served socially, spiritually and for political purposes. The dehumanizing conditions and injustices enslaved peoples endured, made them yearn to express communications in n creativity ways strategically forming information as warnings,  plans to run away and the methods to escape.  

2.10 Black Pride, Identity, and the Question of Naming 

which played a crucial role in fostering a sense of community and solidarity among African Americans. This cultural expression was not only a means of coping with oppression but also served as a powerful tool for asserting their identity and reclaiming their narrative in a society that often sought to marginalize them.