HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: New Slaves, British Institution, Medicalization
5 Nov 2018
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Looking at the space and the political area and determining the texture of slavery. A human being is transformed to a commodity. They were black typically engaged in domestic servitude. Africans who were enslaved in terms if status higher grade commodity. Slave- it assumes that it is the persons entire being and they were born and there is nothing else to them and that they are a commodity. Racial category and slave (new france) it did not exist. People who purchased slaves were elite men, high status. Role of british in maritimes and the arrival of the loyalists (the point of transformation) What are the ways that they responded were they different or similar. Earliest record of blacks in relation to british rule. Not all blacks in canada ins the 70th century were enslaved. The british officer passage and support to halifax settlers (including free blacks) "negro servant" "orange" mentioned in a will - inherited as property.
