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The Origins of an American Disaster
- Conflicting views of Origins
- Handlin: Labor: Labor needs
- Degler: Prejudice
- Jordan: Mutually reinforcing
- English Views on Africans and Slavery
- English Views on Africans and Africa
- Blackness, "savage", religion, "apes of Africa",
sexuality,
blackness within, slavery in Africa
- Example of West Indies,Spain and Portuguese colonies
- Environment problem and labor needs
- Vulnerability of Africans
- Indians as slaves
- Slavery in New England
- Extent and economic
- Puritan viewws on slavery:
just war or strangers in 1640s
- Slavery in Virginia, Maryland, South Carolina
- Three stages
- 1619-1640 -- small number, slave and servants
- 1640-1660 -- some hereditary slavery, some servants, some free, and
gradual discrimination and debasement
- 1660-1700 -- laws on slavery and discrimination
- Interaction Anglos, Indians, Africans
- 1705 slave code to control, punish, transfer as property in an estate
- Rationale: Little rationale, Christianity not require freedom
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