SLAVERY Flashcards
(21 cards)
Indigenous North america
- Diverse place
-Diverse approach to slavery
-Most societies did not like slavery
-Chattel slavery was rare
Pacific north west
-Capturing societies were present
-Slavery was common -> Hierarchy
Societies in PNW
- Very hierarchical -> abundance of salmon
- Chiefs/noble -> Commoners -> Slaves
- Chiefs and Nobles cant force people to obey
Capturing Societies
Slave taking -> Way to maintain their life
Slaves captured -> Slave raiding
Slaves were taken to:
- Work in the house
- Slaves were nurtured -> and were taught the customs
After SOCIALISATION - no more slave
Chinook Tribes
Took 100 big and small war canoes -> wiped out a village (men)
Took women and children -> Slaves
Makahs
Hold slaves (kids & adults)
Children -> cheaper -> Less likely to escape
Slaves were purchased from neighbours
Slaves
Children -> adopted (not taken) and were treated like own children
Some were killed using violence
Stolen from other tribes
Nootka sound
Slave practices
Slaves were captured as war prisoners
Were traded with other indigenous people
Work HARD
Captured from neighbouring groups
FUR TRADE
Vancouver island
Sacrificing slaves
Haida gwaii
Slave practices
Slaves were captured as war prisoners
Were traded with other indigenous people
Work HARD
Captured from neighbouring groups
People trade
Alaska
No sacrificing
British America
First settlement (1607) Jamestown
More Labour -> African slavery
HARSH PUNISHMENT
RESTRICTION
Indigenous Slavery
Slave trade
Some Native americans (NA) were shipped from colonies -> Slavery
Encomienda forced NA to work for EU settlers
EU raided NA communities to capture people
Indentured slavery
SYSTEM -> Contracts are signed without pay (for food and basic needs)
Passage to Americas -> very expensive
NA faced labour shortage
Enslaved People
1st set of enslaved africans (1619)
Africans -> treated like servants
Tobacco plantations were grown by enslaved africans
Plantation Revolution impacts
British:
- Slaves -> 1 form of labour
USA
- Slavery -> centre of production
Society with slaves
- Slaves could trade freely Etc.
Slave Society
- few chance to trade
- Discouraged from religion
Plantation revolution
CREATION OF USA
american rev -> 1775-1783 (13 colonies vs britain)
1781 -> british surrender
1783 -> treaty of paris
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
Triangular europe
Europe
- Guns
- Rum
Africa
- 2 mil slaves died
Americas
- Cleaned
- Auctioned
- Plantation
- Sugar
- Tobacco
- Cotton
Slavery in the US
Slaves died from Malnutrition and disease
Toiled in fields
no escape
no rights
sparse living condition
Fields/work
Sunrise to sunset
Sewing
Cooking
Clean
10-15 min breaks
feed animals
chop wood -> suicide
Punishments
Whipped/flogged
Branded
Shackles
Suicide
Resistance
Living Conditions
Slave codes
Barns
1 blanket
on the floor
have as many children -> born into slavery
Abolitionist Movement
Thomas clarkson helped to found the committee for the abolition of the slave trade and was a main force in bringing about the slave trade act of 1807