Race, Slavery, and Law

1. Transatlantic slave trade was very different from slavery in past times (VVA)

2. Slavery in the ancient world was based off entirely different concepts such as crime and debt (VVA)

2.1. This depicts how slavery has evolved to become racist rather than being constructed based on race.

3. Slave factories were used to examine slaves before they made the trip through the middle passage (VVA)

4. The transatlantic slave trade continuously brought slaves to the Caribbean to make up for those who died (VVA).

5. West African Kingdoms would sell their own people for guns and manufactured goods (VVA).

5.1. Put them at an advantage over other African Kingdoms.

6. Nations established laws to legalize and justify slavery (VVA)

7. The education system taught students about the "3 races"(Podcast)

7.1. Embedded this idea of racial separation in generations of children

8. Everybody is self-centered and believe they are superior (P)

8.1. The basis of white supremacy

9. Used religion and "science" to justify slavery (P)

10. Gomes Zurara (P)

10.1. -"First articulator of racist ideas" -Established the idea that slavery was actually giving the enslaved a better life than they had in the dessert

11. "Ignorance caused exploitation" (P)

11.1. Wrong:the mission was exploitation

11.2. Needed people to produce goods for the economy

11.3. It was easier to justify having black slaves than white ones

12. Slavery in Virginia began with a form of it known as the "headright system" (VVA).

12.1. This concept brought indentured white servant and promised them land and freedom rights after their contract expired

13. Originally no laws to outlaw or support slavery (VVA)

13.1. This allowed individual owners to do as they please with their slaves

13.2. Some were allowed rights, others none at all

14. Near the end of the 17th century, laws in Virginia were passed to limit the freedom of African Americans (VVA).

15. 1705: Strict slave laws established in colonial Virginia (VVA)