The Birth of America- From Before Columbus to the Revolution
white Englishmen and Irishmen were less welcome than obviously distinct, and so segregatable, black slaves. The first blacks in ...
was usually put in a private jail until he could be bundled abroad a ship. The practice was recognized and deplored, but Parliam ...
chapter 10 Blacks in America L ike a giant whirlpool, the transatlantic traffic sucked out of Africa perhaps as many as 12 milli ...
trast, they kept the Africans under tight control and put them to work. In effect, they treated the Africans as a species of far ...
smell—were merely the visible manifestations of much deeper differences in “the membranes, the muscles, the tendons, and... all ...
aboard that about 15 of 100 captives died on the voyage. Often the death rate was much higher. On one Dutch ship from Elmina on ...
deck and fainted.” Seeing a huge copper pot boiling, he thought he was to be eaten. As a contemporary witness who took the troub ...
from Bermuda. Rhode Islanders joined the parade in 1647 and soon were among America’s foremost slavers. Soon slavery was common ...
by private traders. The number again multiplied: between 1727 and 1747 it reached 45,440; and from 1741 to 1760 it reached over ...
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was sold, blacks were treated “like cattle or sheep.” Generally, as in any live- stock show, the sellers tried to loosen the pur ...
they could work during their short periods of time off, usually part of a Sunday, to raise vegetables and, perhaps, chickens or ...
damp, clay floor, with my head in and feet out. My feet have been so cracked with the frost, that the pen with which I am writin ...
planter in South Carolina wrote of his household staff, they were “supplied without limitto insure a genteel and comfortable app ...
learn to imitate it.... The man must be a prodigy who can retain his manners and morals undepraved in such circumstances. The ju ...
of the eighteenth century, the attitude toward interracial sex underwent a reversal: whereas earlier white men had enjoyed relat ...
Our third additional category was made up of blacks who in one way or another had become free. Achieving freedom was less common ...
accustomed to working more or less on their own. Like the household slaves, who also frequently tried to run away, they would ha ...
of using Indians to do the job for them. But, even tracked by forest-wise Indians, some cimarrón,or maroon, communities managed ...
uprising, it proposed “that the sd Indians be severally rewarded with a Coat, a Flap, a Hat, a pair of Indian Stockings, a Gun, ...
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