slavery_america

google.com __//** Student Questions - **//__ __//** 1. When did slavery start in America? **//__ __//** 2. Why did slavery stay a part of tradition when the colonists came to America? **//__ __//** 3. Why did they only use African Americans not Native Americans and Indians? **//__ __//** 4. Why did they go with them to America? **//__ __//** 5. What was the middle passage like? How did the slave trade work between Africa and America? **//__ __//** 6. Shouldn't the Constitution have outlawed slavery since America is the “Land of the Free"? **//__

Student information, resources, and reflection starts here stown, Virginia. The slaves started to work on farms growing tobacco but then as cotton stated to boom, slaves would forced to change from tobacco to cotton. As more cotton was needed, More slaves were brought to America.

1.slavery came to America in 1619 when the Dutch ship White Lion brought 20 enslaved African Americans to Jamestown, Virginia.

2. plantation owners and farmers to own slaves and have them work for them, then to do it all themselves. Slaves also worked a lot faster then just the farmer working himself. They got a lot more work down and then they made a lot more money. Since they thought it was working so well, they thought there was no point in ending slavery, even though it was hurting many.

3. When the Spanish and Portuguese founded their colonies in the Americas, they brought the plantation system with them. At first they tried to enslave Native Americans to work... but they quickly died from overwork and disease. In some cases, they rebelled with the help of local allies. The Spaniards looked to to other sources of slave labor, including Spanish slaves, black Christian slaves, and Asian slaves. But there was not enough of any of these groups to meet demand. Finally, the Spanish and Portuguese enslaved Africans to provide labor because... - Africans were immune to most European diseases. - Africans had no friends or family in the Americas to help them resist or escape enslavement. - Enslaved Africans provided a permanent source of cheap labor. Even their children could be held in bondage. - Many Africans had worked on farms in their native lands. From //Creating America// They chose the African Americans because they were easier to get because they had already been captured by the Spanish and Portugese. They also preffered African Americans because they didn't know the land and it was harder for them to escape. From the Atlantic slave trade hem tried to avoid capture some even tried to jump of the boat. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/slavery_2.htm The slave trade was cruel slaves had no room and it was very cramped. Many slaves tried to rebel but they were tortured to give in. http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/middlepassage.htm This is a video with pictures about the slave trade and captions. It is good but the music is a bit annoying. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaYAkM5KD8 4.They didn't want to go with them to America, but they were captured. They had no choice and if they had a choice, they would not have gone to America.

5. The trip was at least 6 weeks old, with about 30 crewmen and about 300 slave men, woman, and children. The scene on the slave deck below is horrible. Several hundred slaves were crammed into a space so small that there was not even enough room to stand up. The sleeping area, which was below the deck, was typically composed of un-sanded plank floors that had only 18 inches or less of headroom. Foul smells and disease, along with the shrieks and groans of the dying, made the middle passage a terrifying experience. From Creating America

6. There are some places in the constitution that mention slavery like in Article 1, Section 9. It said that it slaves would be legal for 20 more years, but in 1808 slavery was outlawed by congress. Despite the freedoms demanded in the Declaration and the freedoms reserved in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, slavery was not only tolerated in the Constitution, but it was codified.

Sites: http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_overview.htm A good general overview of slavery, from the first slaves to the Civil war.

http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/history/series/hw/slavery/slaveryintro.htm

http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/history-slavery.htm

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/05/AR2006090501288.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_Passage- This is a good overview of the middle passage.

Pictures: Marks from a slave owner from whipping his slave for behaving badly.

A Colonial Slave Market in the 17th century. http://www.sonofthesouth.net/slavery/pictures/slave-market-550.jpg

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http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/history/hs_es_overview.htm This is a good website where it shows that tells you about the first ship of slaves that came to America.

Middle Passage:

http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/library/images/slavery/wad.ship.interior.gif

This is a picture of the Teçora the Portuguese slave ship that sailed through the middle passage

http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/slavery/a/middlepassage.htm - this showes a good description of what happened on the Middle Passage.

-This shows how crowed the ships were.

- this also shows how crowed the ships were.