SLAVERY Flashcards

(21 cards)

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Indigenous North america

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  • Diverse place
    -Diverse approach to slavery
    -Most societies did not like slavery
    -Chattel slavery was rare
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Pacific north west

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-Capturing societies were present
-Slavery was common -> Hierarchy

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Societies in PNW

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  • Very hierarchical -> abundance of salmon
  • Chiefs/noble -> Commoners -> Slaves
  • Chiefs and Nobles cant force people to obey
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Capturing Societies

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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

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Chinook Tribes

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Took 100 big and small war canoes -> wiped out a village (men)
Took women and children -> Slaves

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Makahs

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Hold slaves (kids & adults)
Children -> cheaper -> Less likely to escape
Slaves were purchased from neighbours

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6
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Slaves

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Children -> adopted (not taken) and were treated like own children
Some were killed using violence
Stolen from other tribes

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7
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Nootka sound

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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

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8
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Haida gwaii

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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

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9
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British America

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First settlement (1607) Jamestown
More Labour -> African slavery
HARSH PUNISHMENT
RESTRICTION

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Indigenous Slavery

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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

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Indentured slavery

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SYSTEM -> Contracts are signed without pay (for food and basic needs)
Passage to Americas -> very expensive
NA faced labour shortage

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12
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Enslaved People

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1st set of enslaved africans (1619)
Africans -> treated like servants
Tobacco plantations were grown by enslaved africans

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13
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Plantation Revolution impacts

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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

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14
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Plantation revolution

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CREATION OF USA
american rev -> 1775-1783 (13 colonies vs britain)
1781 -> british surrender
1783 -> treaty of paris
AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE

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15
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Triangular europe

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Europe
- Guns
- Rum

Africa
- 2 mil slaves died

Americas
- Cleaned
- Auctioned
- Plantation
- Sugar
- Tobacco
- Cotton

16
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Slavery in the US

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Slaves died from Malnutrition and disease
Toiled in fields
no escape
no rights
sparse living condition

17
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Fields/work

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Sunrise to sunset
Sewing
Cooking
Clean

10-15 min breaks
feed animals
chop wood -> suicide

18
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Punishments

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Whipped/flogged
Branded
Shackles
Suicide
Resistance

19
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Living Conditions

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Slave codes
Barns
1 blanket
on the floor
have as many children -> born into slavery

20
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Abolitionist Movement

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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