Origins of Black Slavery
 

1600     Caribbean islands        Sugar

1680     Mainland Colonies      Tobacco, Rice

1793     American South           Cotton

Adoption of Black Slavery

     -Legality

     -Availability

     -Mortality rate

     -European Migration

          -Extending Indentures

          -Bacon's Rebellion (1676)  

     -Racism

          -Color

          -Religion

          -Civilization

                -Leo Africanus 
 

Comparisons with other Slave Societies

Natural Replenishment

     -Climate

     -Women

     -Fertility

           -Breast Feeding

     -Food

     -Sugar Plantations 

Proportion of Africans and Creoles

Proportion of Whites

Plantation Size

     -Absentee Owners

     -Overseers

Non-Slaveholding Whites

Spanish America

Northern Colonies

South Carolina

     -Enumerated List

           -Rice (1704-1730)

     -Stono Rebellion (1739)

     -Negro Act (1740)  

 
    Atlantic Slave Trade

 
      Ethnicity, 1775