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The Economics of Slavery

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JOURNAL #2
9/15/2014

Part I The Economics of Slavery

Greatest asset in British colonial America	Greatest asset in British colonial America = the immensity of land
Greatest deficit in British colonial America	shortage of hands to develop land

The British government showed little interest in sponsoring emigration Those who did emigrate were often the least prepared or the most anti-social (for religious or other reasons). Colonists already in America paid for the importation of convicts, beggars, prisoners-of-war, and indentured servants

The colonists turned to an existing trade in forced labor in the form of slaves carried by Spanish, Portuguese , and Dutch traders. The Colonies developed their own domestic slave trading industry , based on the Middle Passage centered in Newport, Rhode Island

Slavery and the Making of America "The Capture"

The Economics of Slavery

#1 An attractive option for labor starved colonists

#2 Permanent – it could be passed on generationally “Social death” at birth eliminated a slaves political life

#3 Slavery becomes race based, because racial coloring offered an easy basis for marking the enslaved apart from the English and

Indians

#4 All told 11 million Africans were torn from their homes “African Diaspora”

#5 Most of them were shipped to the West Indes and South America, but a sizable portion went to the North American colonies

ALL the colonies participated is slavery, but the concentrations varied. The greatest concentration of slave labor was in the Carolinas Slave labor participated in almost every aspect of the colonial economy. Slavery generated conflict and treason, resulting in slave revolts

Part II The Geography of Slavery

The Geography of Slavery - The Middle Passage