HY 314 Lecture 1: American Slavery (8-22-2016 notes)

• School: University of Alabama
• Department: History
• Course: HY 314
• Professor: Lawrence Kohl

Document Summary

Slaves were considered property (aka chattel slavery); americans largely came from england where property rights were important, which made ending slavery (ie taking away property") that much harder. Slavery was permanent (once a slave, always a slave unless freed by master, as opposed to, say, indentured servitude or other forms of slavery in the past) Slavery was hereditary (children of slaves became slaves as well: as long as slavery was permanent & they continued to have children, slavery would continue to persist without major change. Evolves into a racial thing over the course of slavery (which becomes a critical component of. 1619: dutch ship containing captured & enslaved africans is brought to virginia. By 1660, it was assumed that anyone who was black was a slave, and all of the characteristics of. American slavery were either set into law or protected by laws by this time.