HIST 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Impressment, Tea Act, Irish Migration To Great Britain
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Hist 161 - lecture two - revolutionary currents (1650s - 1775) Slaves status wasn"t particularly clear when they first started arriving, though often seen as indentured servants who had particularly long indentures, eventually just slavery. By the 1630s with the intensification of the tobacco industry and word getting out that indentured servanthood was not a good choice, so the slave market was tapped into until chesapeake is almost cleanly divided english- irish- african. At this point very clear that africans are slaves for life, and with that distinction the price of slaves goes up. The earliest of the slave codes go onto the books, mostly forbidding slaves from doing things like growing their own food, learning to read, and becoming christian (can"t justify owning christian slaves) Alternatives to the plantation complex: new england. Attempt to recreate england and english labor before enclosures. Are slaves and indentured servants but not as integrated as they are further south.
