HIST 3535 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: The Contours, Estuary, Racialization
16 Jun 2020
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Slave resistance in plantation life in the 18th century. This lecture is based on a book by philip morgan, called slave. It is about slave resistance on plantations; and looks at slaves as humans: forced immigrants, workers, solitaires, family members, church-goers, etc. Slavery was no curious abnormality in the us, no aberration, no marginal feature of early american life; not an embarrasment or an evil; it was a fundamental american institution. Early america was the land of the unfree rather than the free; from 1700- 1780, twice as many africans as europeans crossed the atlantic to the. Much of the wealth of early america came from slave-produced commodities. But although slavery was a global and continental phenomena (as we saw in last week"s classes) it varied tremendously across space. I will compare chesapeake region (virginia) to the lowcountry (south. Carolina) in three specific areas: the contours of the plantation experience, encounters between black slaves and white owners, the black world.
