Blacks in Colonial AmericaMcFarland, 3. 9. 2015 - Počet stran: 301 By the time of the American Revolution, blacks made up 20 percent of the colonial population. Early in colonial history, many blacks who came to America were indentured servants who served out their contracts and then settled in the colonies as free men. Over time, however, more and more blacks arrived as slaves, and the position of blacks in colonial society suffered precipitous decline. This book discusses the lives of blacks, both slave and free, as they struggled to make homes for themselves among the white European settlers in the New World. The author thoroughly examines colonial slavery and the laws supporting it (as early as 1686, for example, New Jersey had laws demanding the return of fugitive slaves) as well as the emancipation movement, active from the beginning of the slave trade. Other topics include blacks and the practice of Christianity in the colonies, and the service of blacks in the Revolution. |
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... slaveholders controlled 8 million poor whites and 4 million blacks. That they were not completely successful in separating the races was seen in the presence of many children of mixed parentage. Society considered the “mulatto an ...
... slavery with respect to its victim was repeatedly expressed by slaveholders and their sympathizers. George Fitzhugh, a lawyer in Virginia, believed that the Negro was a grown-up child and had to be governed like a child; the master was ...
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4 The Slaves Life in Colonial America | 47 |
5 Africans in New England | 65 |
6 Africans in the Middle Atlantic Colonies | 79 |
7 Africans in the South | 97 |
9 Colonization | 145 |
10 Opposition to Slavery in Colonial America | 157 |
11 Miscegenation | 181 |
12 Slave Rebellion and Black Codes | 189 |
13 Blacks and Christianity | 217 |
14 Blacks in War | 229 |
Notes | 257 |
Index | 287 |